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title: “Do go and wash yourself, Paperarello!” said the queen sometimes, fo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do go and wash yourself, Paperarello!” said the queen sometimes, for he did his work so well that she took an interest in him. Who acts: queen, Paperarello. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 11

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“Do go and wash yourself, Paperarello!” said the queen sometimes, for he did his work so well that she took an interest in him.

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**Who acts:** queen, Paperarello · **What happens:** go, wash, say, do, take, work · **To what, where:** Paperarello, yourself, work, interest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, Paperarello), 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:pg2435:13:11
# text = “Do go and wash yourself, Paperarello!” said the queen sometimes, for he did his work so well that she took an interest in him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | Paperarello |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | past | Paperarello | Paperarello's work |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **take** | past | queen | a interest |  |  |  | in Paperarello | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in he=Location |
| 6 | **work** |  | Paperarello |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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