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title: They go back to the King and bid farewell, and tell him not to be so… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They go back to the King and bid farewell, and tell him not to be so hasty another time to order people to be beheaded before having a proper cause for it. Who acts: presents. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 19

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They go back to the King and bid farewell, and tell him not to be so hasty another time to order people to be beheaded before having a proper cause for it.

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**Who acts:** presents · **What happens:** go back, bid, tell, not be, order, behead · **To what, where:** King, people, proper cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:28:19
# text = They go back to the King and bid farewell, and tell him not to be so hasty another time to order people to be beheaded before having a proper cause for it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | present | presents *= present* |  |  |  |  | to the King *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result |
| 2 | **bid** | past | presents *= present* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | farewell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | King |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **order** | to-infinitive |  |  | people |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **behead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **have** | gerund |  | a proper cause |  |  |  | for cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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