--- title: If you look after them both for a whole year I will give you anythin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you look after them both for a whole year I will give you anything you like to ask; but if, on the other hand, you let either of the animals escape you, your last hour is come, and your head shall be stuck on the last spike of my fence. Who acts: you, I, either, fence. 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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, either, fence), 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:pg640:31:50 # text = If you look after them both for a whole year I will give you anything you like to ask; but if, on the other hand, you let either of the animals escape you, your last hour is come, and your head shall be stuck on the last spike of my fence. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 both both ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 escape escape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 xcomp _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 spike spike NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | after mare; year | both *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **give** | future | I | anything | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme | | 3 | **like** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **escape** | present | either | you | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **come** | present · passive | | your last hour | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **stick** | shall · passive | | your head | | the last spike of my fence | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on spike=Destination | | 9 | **spike** | | my fence | | | | | | nom spike «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/51/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)