--- title: And she answered at once ‘I want you to take me and my husband and m… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And she answered at once ‘I want you to take me and my husband and my servants and this beautiful house and set us down on the other side of the Red Sea, but my daughter and her husband are to stay behind.’ Who acts: Queen, I, you, daughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/30/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/) / 30 # The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 30 And she answered at once ‘I want you to take me and my husband and my servants and this beautiful house and set us down on the other side of the Red Sea, but my daughter and her husband are to stay behind.’ **Who acts:** Queen, I, you, daughter · **What happens:** answer, want, take, set down, be, stay · **To what, where:** you, me, us, other side This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, I, you, daughter), 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:pg7277:20:30 # text = And she answered at once ‘I want you to take me and my husband and my servants and this beautiful house and set us down on the other side of the Red Sea, but my daughter and her husband are to stay behind.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 obl _ _ 6 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 behind behind ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Queen | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **want** | present | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 4 | **set down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | the other side of the Red Sea | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme on side=Destination | | 5 | **does** | present | my daughter and Queen's husband | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | to-infinitive | my daughter and Queen's husband *not said here* | | | | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/31/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)