--- title: “Lift me to your knee, my hinny, my heart; Lift me to your knee, my… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Lift me to your knee, my hinny, my heart; Lift me to your knee, my own darling; Remember the words you and I spoke, Down in the meadow by the World's End Well.” Who acts: 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 (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:pg7439:47:31 # text = “Lift me to your knee, my hinny, my heart; Lift me to your knee, my own darling; Remember the words you and I spoke, Down in the meadow by the World's End Well.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Lift lift VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hinny hinny NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Lift lift VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 darling darling NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 conj _ _ 30 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 End End PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 41 Well Well PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | door | | your knee | | my hinny *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to knee=Destination | | 2 | **lift** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | door | | your knee my own darling | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to knee=Destination | | 3 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the words | | | by the World's End | down *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | you | the words *not said here* | | | | | 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:** «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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/32/) - ↑ back to [The Well of the World's End](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/)