--- title: ‘Well, here is a purse; take it and say to it, “Dear purse, give me… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, here is a purse; take it and say to it, “Dear purse, give me some money,” and you will get as much as you can want But the charm will only work if you promise to remain three years, three months, and three days without washing and without combing and without shaving your beard or changing you --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/39/20/) [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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/39/) / 20 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 20 ‘Well, here is a purse; take it and say to it, “Dear purse, give me some money,” and you will get as much as you can want But the charm will only work if you promise to remain three years, three months, and three days without washing and without combing and without shaving your beard or changing your clothes. **Who acts:** purse, you, charm, three days · **What happens:** be, take, say, give, get, want · **To what, where:** purse, Dear purse, money, Don, much, beard · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purse, you, charm, three days), 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:pg5615:39:20 # text = ‘Well, here is a purse; take it and say to it, “Dear purse, give me some money,” and you will get as much as you can want But the charm will only work if you promise to remain three years, three months, and three days without washing and without combing and without shaving your beard or changing your clothes. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 parataxis _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 36 But but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 47 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 nummod _ _ 55 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 56 without without SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 57 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 parataxis _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 59 without without SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 60 combing comb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 conj _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 without without SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 63 shaving shave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 conj _ _ 64 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 66 or or CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 67 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 63 conj _ _ 68 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 69 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 67 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a purse | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | purse | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Dear purse | purse | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | some money | the Don *= don* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=Theme | | 5 | **get** | future | you | much | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | | 6 | **want** | can | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **work** | future | the charm | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **wash** | gerund | three days | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **comb** | gerund | three days *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **shave** | gerund | three days *not said here* | your beard | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | | 13 | **change** | gerund | three days *not said here* | your clothes | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/39/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/39/21/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/39/)