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title: And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed. Who acts: Masilo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 53

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And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.

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**Who acts:** Masilo · **What happens:** hasten, tell, send, possess · **To what, where:** neighbouring villages, people, Masilo, cattle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo), 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:pg3282:16:53
# text = And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	hasten	hasten	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | present | Masilo |  |  | all neighbouring villages |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Masilo *not said here* |  | Masilo's people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Masilo *not said here* | Masilo |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** | past | Masilo | all cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cattle=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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