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title: “We three will go and look for game,” he said, “and you, Tree Comber… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “We three will go and look for game,” he said, “and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.” Who acts: We, Paul, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 42

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“We three will go and look for game,” he said, “and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.”

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**Who acts:** We, Paul, you · **What happens:** go, look, say, stay, prepare · **To what, where:** good supper · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Paul, you), 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:pg2435:31:42
# text = “We three will go and look for game,” he said, “and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	Comber	Comber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	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* | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for game | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a good supper |  |  |  | for us | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for we=Beneficiary |

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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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