--- title: If you will not let me go with you, go to the smithy, and let the sm… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: If you will not let me go with you, go to the smithy, and let the smith make me a great strong sword, and I will go seek my fortune." Who acts: you, me, smith, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, 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/pg7885/21/16/) [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 Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/) / 16 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 16 If you will not let me go with you, go to the smithy, and let the smith make me a great strong sword, and I will go seek my fortune." **Who acts:** you, me, smith, I · **What happens:** not let, go, let, make, seek · **To what, where:** me, smithy, smith, great strong sword, fortune This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, smith, 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:pg7885:21:16 # text = If you will not let me go with you, go to the smithy, and let the smith make me a great strong sword, and I will go seek my fortune." 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 smithy smithy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 smith smith NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 31 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **let** | future | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | the smithy | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | me *not said here* | the smith | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | the smith *not said here* | a great strong sword | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary sword=Product | | 6 | **go** | future | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **seek** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my fortune | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/17/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/)