---
title: Just send me a message and you’ll see that I shall be back in next t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just send me a message and you’ll see that I shall be back in next to no time.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Hazel-nut Child (29)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/) / 14

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just send me a message and you’ll see that I shall be back in next to no time.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** send, see, be · **To what, where:** message, me

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:40:14
# text = Just send me a message and you’ll see that I shall be back in next to no time.’
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | a message | me |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination message=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | future | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/15/)
- ↑ back to [The Hazel-nut Child (29)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/)