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title: “The giant’s castle is not far now,” he said, “but when we reach it… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The giant’s castle is not far now,” he said, “but when we reach it you two must remain outside while I go and fetch the princess. Who acts: castle, we, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 46

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“The giant’s castle is not far now,” he said, “but when we reach it you two must remain outside while I go and fetch the princess.

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**Who acts:** castle, we, you · **What happens:** be, say, reach, remain, go, fetch · **To what, where:** way, princess · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, we, 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:pg3282:23:46
# text = “The giant’s castle is not far now,” he said, “but when we reach it you two must remain outside while I go and fetch the princess.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the giant's castle |  |  |  |  | far, now *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **reach** *in a quote* | present | we | way |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fetch** *in a quote* | present | castle *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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