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title: “Good morning, holy father,” he said again, a little louder than bef… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good morning, holy father,” he said again, a little louder than before, and this time the hermit made a sign to him to come nearer. Who acts: hermit. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 83

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“Good morning, holy father,” he said again, a little louder than before, and this time the hermit made a sign to him to come nearer.

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**Who acts:** hermit · **What happens:** say, make, come · **To what, where:** sign, visitor · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), 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:pg2435:9:83
# text = “Good morning, holy father,” he said again, a little louder than before, and this time the hermit made a sign to him to come nearer.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | hermit |  |  |  | again; morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | the hermit | a sign | visitor |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the hermit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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