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title: “Now, my son, you must go,” cried the old woman “but first put these… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, my son, you must go,” cried the old woman “but first put these cakes and this napkin in your bag, where you can easily get at them.” Who acts: you, old woman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 117

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“Now, my son, you must go,” cried the old woman “but first put these cakes and this napkin in your bag, where you can easily get at them.”

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**Who acts:** you, old woman · **What happens:** go, cry, put, get · **To what, where:** son, cakes, bag · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman), 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:pg2435:27:117
# text = “Now, my son, you must go,” cried the old woman “but first put these cakes and this napkin in your bag, where you can easily get at them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	napkin	napkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	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* | must | you | my son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | this cakes and this napkin |  | your bag |  | first *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cake=Theme in bag=Destination |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | at napkin; easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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