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title: "Be it so," said all; "he shall have a letter and a purse to put our… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be it so," said all; "he shall have a letter and a purse to put our money in, and we shall direct him the right way." Who acts: hare, we. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 84

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"Be it so," said all; "he shall have a letter and a purse to put our money in, and we shall direct him the right way."

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**Who acts:** hare, we · **What happens:** be, say, have, put, direct · **To what, where:** money, letter, hare · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, we), 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:pg14241:33:84
# text = "Be it so," said all; "he shall have a letter and a purse to put our money in, and we shall direct him the right way."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | hare | a letter and a purse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | hare *not said here* | our money |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal |
| 5 | **direct** *in a quote* | shall | we | hare |  |  |  | the right way *obl:unmarked* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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