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title: Come, guards, hurry as fast as you can and bring the seventh Simon b… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, guards, hurry as fast as you can and bring the seventh Simon before me.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 52

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Come, guards, hurry as fast as you can and bring the seventh Simon before me.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, hurry, bring · **To what, where:** guards, seventh Simon

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2435:5:52
# text = Come, guards, hurry as fast as you can and bring the seventh Simon before me.”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | guards |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hurry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the seventh Simon |  |  | before me |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent simon=Theme before i=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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