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title: Directly you see me come tearing by with the princess on my back, ju… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly you see me come tearing by with the princess on my back, jump up behind, and hold her tight, so that she does not escape you. Who acts: you, me, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 79

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Directly you see me come tearing by with the princess on my back, jump up behind, and hold her tight, so that she does not escape you.

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**Who acts:** you, me, princess · **What happens:** see, come, tear, jump up, hold, not escape · **To what, where:** me, tight, you

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg5615:38:79
# text = Directly you see me come tearing by with the princess on my back, jump up behind, and hold her tight, so that she does not escape you.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | me |  |  |  | directly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tear** | gerund | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the princess on my back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by princess=Trajectory |
| 4 | **jump up** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | infinitive |  | princess's tight |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tight=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **escape** | present · do-support | princess | you |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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.

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