--- title: "Come to meet your own mother, when she comes to see you," Gold-tree… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Come to meet your own mother, when she comes to see you," Gold-tree said that she could not, that she was locked in the room, and that she could not get out of it. Who acts: you, mother, Gold tree. 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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, mother, Gold tree), 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:pg7885:15:34 # text = "Come to meet your own mother, when she comes to see you," Gold-tree said that she could not, that she was locked in the room, and that she could not get out of it. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your own mother | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | mother | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gold tree | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lock** | past · passive | | mother | | the room | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **not** **get out** | could | mother | room | | | | | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/35/) - ↑ back to [Gold-tree and Silver-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/)