--- title: Just shake yourself off, and don’t hinder me, for I am off to Madrid… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Just shake yourself off, and don’t hinder me, for I am off to Madrid to see the King,’ and hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, away stumped Medio Pollito in great glee, for the towers and roofs of Madrid were now in sight. Who acts: you, towers. 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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 (you, towers), 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:pg7277:6:51 # text = Just shake yourself off, and don’t hinder me, for I am off to Madrid to see the King,’ and hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, away stumped Medio Pollito in great glee, for the towers and roofs of Madrid were now in sight. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 shake shake VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 hinder hinder VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 hoppity hoppity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 hoppity hoppity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 stumped stump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 Medio Medio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 Pollito Pollito PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 glee glee NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 48 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 51 advmod _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake off** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | | 2 | **not** **hinder off** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | me | Madrid | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the King | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | | 4 | **stump** | past | you *not said here* | Medio | | great glee | | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus medio=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | the towers of Madrid and roofs | | | sight | now | | tree rules | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/52/) - ↑ back to [The Half-chick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/)