--- title: ‘If you will let me live,’ said the fish, ‘you will find on the sand… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If you will let me live,’ said the fish, ‘you will find on the sands to-morrow morning two beautiful horses splendidly saddled and bridled, and on them you can go through the world as knights seeking adventures.’ Who acts: you, me, fish, two beautiful horses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, fish, two beautiful horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:22:122 # text = ‘If you will let me live,’ said the fish, ‘you will find on the sands to-morrow morning two beautiful horses splendidly saddled and bridled, and on them you can go through the world as knights seeking adventures.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sands sand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 saddled saddle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 bridled bridle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 45 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fish | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **find** | future | you | | | the sands to morrow morning | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **saddle** | past | two beautiful horses | the sands to morrow morning *not said here* | | | | splendidly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Destination | | 6 | **bridle** | past | two beautiful horses *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | can | you | | | the world | | on horses *= horse* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through world=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **seek** | gerund | knights | adventures | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/123/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/)