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title: ‘Touch me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that you too may come with us under… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Touch me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that you too may come with us under ground.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 70

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‘Touch me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that you too may come with us under ground.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** touch, say, come · **To what, where:** me, Giant, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:15:70
# text = ‘Touch me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that you too may come with us under ground.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | may | you |  |  | ground |  | with us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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