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description: “Paperarello,” cried the other servants, when they saw him quietly taking off his clothes, “you cannot go to bed; you will need every moment of the night for your work. Who acts: Paperarello, mills, you, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 22

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“Paperarello,” cried the other servants, when they saw him quietly taking off his clothes, “you cannot go to bed; you will need every moment of the night for your work.

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**Who acts:** Paperarello, mills, you, your · **What happens:** cry, see, take off, not go, need, work · **To what, where:** other servants, Paperarello, clothes, bed · **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 (Paperarello, mills, you, your), 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:pg2435:13:22
# text = “Paperarello,” cried the other servants, when they saw him quietly taking off his clothes, “you cannot go to bed; you will need every moment of the night for your work.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Paperarello | the other servants |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | past | mills *= mill* | Paperarello |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take off** | gerund | mills *= mill* *not said here* | Paperarello's clothes |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **need** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  | moment | for your work | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **work** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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