--- title: ‘The time has come for me to go hence, but tell me, I pray you, how… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The time has come for me to go hence, but tell me, I pray you, how to find the Sweet Milk Lake, and I will return, and will bring my wife back with me.’ Who acts: time, me, I. 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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 (time, me, I), 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:pg641:44:73 # text = ‘The time has come for me to go hence, but tell me, I pray you, how to find the Sweet Milk Lake, and I will return, and will bring my wife back with me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 hence hence ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 Milk Milk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present · perfect | the time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | me | | | | | hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Sweet Milk Lake | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic | | 6 | **return** | future | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bring back** | future | I *not said here* | | my wife | | | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/74/) - ↑ back to [Mogarzea and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/)