--- title: Go everywhere and do anything you like; only one thing I beg and bes… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Go everywhere and do anything you like; only one thing I beg and beseech you, do not open the little iron door in the north tower, which is closed with seven locks and seven bolts; for if you do, we shall both suffer for it.’ Who acts: you, I, we. 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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, I, we), 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:pg640:31:19 # text = Go everywhere and do anything you like; only one thing I beg and beseech you, do not open the little iron door in the north tower, which is closed with seven locks and seven bolts; for if you do, we shall both suffer for it.’ 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 beseech beseech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 bolts bolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 40 for for SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 both both ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 3 | **like** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | one thing *not said here* | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 5 | **beseech** | present | I *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **open** | infinitive · do-support | | the little iron door | | the north tower | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in tower=Location | | 7 | **close** | present · passive | | the north tower | | | | with seven locks and seven bolts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lock=Theme | | 8 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **suffer** | shall | we | | | | | for tower; both *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/20/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)