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title: “Be off with you!” cried her mother, seizing an old broom-handle fro… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be off with you!” cried her mother, seizing an old broom-handle from behind the door. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 12

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“Be off with you!” cried her mother, seizing an old broom-handle from behind the door.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** be, cry, seize · **To what, where:** old broom handle, door · **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 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg2435:36:12
# text = “Be off with you!” cried her mother, seizing an old broom-handle from behind the door.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	off	off	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you; off *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Lizina's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | Lizina's mother *not said here* | a old broom handle |  | the door |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent handle=Theme from door=Source |

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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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