--- title: Mind and tell him I am well, and should like dearly to see him.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Mind and tell him I am well, and should like dearly to see him.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/63/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/) / 63 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 63 Mind and tell him I am well, and should like dearly to see him.” **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** mind, tell, be, like, see · **To what, where:** King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden 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 (you, 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:pg7439:20:63 # text = Mind and tell him I am well, and should like dearly to see him.” 1 Mind mind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 12 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | I | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | should | you *not said here* | | | | | dearly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | King | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/64/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)