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title: 'Now go and tell the daughter of the king of Grianaig; but take heed… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Now go and tell the daughter of the king of Grianaig; but take heed lest you listen to her words, and promise to go no further, for she will seek to help you. Who acts: you, mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 120

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'Now go and tell the daughter of the king of Grianaig; but take heed lest you listen to her words, and promise to go no further, for she will seek to help you.

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**Who acts:** you, mother · **What happens:** go, tell, take, listen, promise, seek · **To what, where:** daughter, heed, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg3027:4:120
# text = 'Now go and tell the daughter of the king of Grianaig; but take heed lest you listen to her words, and promise to go no further, for she will seek to help you.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the daughter of the king of Grianaig |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | present | you |  |  |  |  | to mother's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **seek** | future | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **word** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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