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title: “My good fox,” said the magpie putting his head on one side and look… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My good fox,” said the magpie putting his head on one side and looking very wise—“my good fox, if you take my advice, you will go home as fast as you can. Who acts: magpie, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 85

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“My good fox,” said the magpie putting his head on one side and looking very wise—“my good fox, if you take my advice, you will go home as fast as you can.

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**Who acts:** magpie, you · **What happens:** say, put, look, take, go · **To what, where:** head, one side, advice · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:2095`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:24:85
# text = “My good fox,” said the magpie putting his head on one side and looking very wise—“my good fox, if you take my advice, you will go home as fast as you can.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	vocative	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
35	home	home	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the magpie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | the magpie *not said here* | magpie's head |  | one side |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the magpie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | my advice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | My good fox *vocative*; my good fox *vocative*; fast, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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