---
title: "I will," said she, "if you bring me my gloves which I've left in th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I will," said she, "if you bring me my gloves which I've left in the house." Who acts: Myddvai, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Shepherd of Myddvai](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/) / 20

# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"I will," said she, "if you bring me my gloves which I've left in the house."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Myddvai, you · **What happens:** say, bring, leave · **To what, where:** gloves, Myddvai, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Myddvai, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:11:20
# text = "I will," said she, "if you bring me my gloves which I've left in the house."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Myddvai |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | my gloves | Myddvai |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination glove=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the house |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/21/)
- ↑ back to [The Shepherd of Myddvai](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/)