--- title: Well, listen to me before you ride any further; let me tell you that… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, listen to me before you ride any further; let me tell you that this wood hides in its depths a countless number of the fiercest tigers, hyenas, wolves, bears, and snakes, and all sorts of other monsters. Who acts: you, me, wood. 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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, wood), 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:pg640:30:66 # text = Well, listen to me before you ride any further; let me tell you that this wood hides in its depths a countless number of the fiercest tigers, hyenas, wolves, bears, and snakes, and all sorts of other monsters. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 any any ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 countless countless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 fiercest fierce ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 monsters monster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | snakes and other monsters | me | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | present | you | | | | | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **hide** | present | this wood | a countless number of the fiercest tigers and hyenas and wolves and bears | | wood's depths | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in depth=Location | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/67/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)