---
title: ‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a l… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms. Who acts: you, lamp. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/110/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/) / 110

# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 110

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, lamp · **What happens:** say, like, get, shine · **To what, where:** You, lamp, seven kingdoms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lamp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg5615:28:110
# text = ‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a lamp |  |  |  | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme for i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **shine** | can | a lamp | seven kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/109/)
- next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/111/)
- ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/)