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title: “Dear Signy,” said Asmund, “do try to get hold of that piece of broc… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dear Signy,” said Asmund, “do try to get hold of that piece of brocade and make the clothes yourself, for really we shall have no rest day or night with such a noise.” Who acts: Dear Signy, we. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67

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“Dear Signy,” said Asmund, “do try to get hold of that piece of brocade and make the clothes yourself, for really we shall have no rest day or night with such a noise.”

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**Who acts:** Dear Signy, we · **What happens:** say, try, get, make, have, hold · **To what, where:** hold, clothes, piece · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear Signy, we), 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:pg3282:30:67
# text = “Dear Signy,” said Asmund, “do try to get hold of that piece of brocade and make the clothes yourself, for really we shall have no rest day or night with such a noise.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Signy	Signy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obj	_	_
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
32	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	39	det:predet	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | Dear Signy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | hold of that piece of brocade |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the clothes |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  | day | with such noise | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** *in a quote* |  |  | that piece of brocade |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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