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title: “Well, then, go at midnight, good mother, to the bridge, and call ou… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, then, go at midnight, good mother, to the bridge, and call out ‘Mahomet!’ three times, as loud as you can. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 16

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“Well, then, go at midnight, good mother, to the bridge, and call out ‘Mahomet!’ three times, as loud as you can.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, call out · **To what, where:** bridge, Mahomet

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. 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:pg3282:22:16
# text = “Well, then, go at midnight, good mother, to the bridge, and call out ‘Mahomet!’ three times, as loud as you can.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Mahomet	mahomet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the bridge | then; midnight; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Mahomet |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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