--- title: ‘Now,’ continued the wolf, ‘I am going to turn myself into a boat fu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Now,’ continued the wolf, ‘I am going to turn myself into a boat full of the most beautiful silken merchandise, and you must jump boldly into the boat, and steer with my tail in your hand right out into the open sea. Who acts: I, you. 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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 (I, you), 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:pg7277:52:59 # text = ‘Now,’ continued the wolf, ‘I am going to turn myself into a boat full of the most beautiful silken merchandise, and you must jump boldly into the boat, and steer with my tail in your hand right out into the open sea. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 23 advmod _ _ 23 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 31 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 steer steer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 right right ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 out out ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 46 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | | the wolf | | | now | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself | | a boat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent myself=Theme into boat=Trajectory | | 4 | **jump** | must | you | | | the boat | | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | | 5 | **steer** | present | | | | your hand | | with my tail; into the open sea; out *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=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 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/60/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)