---
title: Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), 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/pg640/7/52/)

<!-- 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 Golden Crab(5)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/) / 52

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 52

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ride by, throw · **To what, where:** silver apple, you

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:7:52
# text = Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple.
1	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride by** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the silver apple | you |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination apple=Theme |

<!-- .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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/51/)
- next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/53/)
- ↑ back to [The Golden Crab(5)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/)