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title: Summoning one of her servants, she bade him go and rescue the strang… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Summoning one of her servants, she bade him go and rescue the stranger, and bring him to her. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 36

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Summoning one of her servants, she bade him go and rescue the stranger, and bring him to her.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** summon, bade, go, rescue, bring · **To what, where:** one, sword, stranger, queen

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (queen), 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:pg2435:19:36
# text = Summoning one of her servants, she bade him go and rescue the stranger, and bring him to her.
1	Summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | gerund | queen *not said here* | one of queen's servants |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 2 | **bade** | past | queen | sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** | infinitive | queen *not said here* | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | queen *not said here* | sword | queen |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Destination |

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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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