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title: “Make your preparations at once,” added he, “and be ready to start i… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Make your preparations at once,” added he, “and be ready to start in the morning. Who acts: your. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 115

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“Make your preparations at once,” added he, “and be ready to start in the morning.

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**Who acts:** your · **What happens:** make, add, be, start, prepare · **To what, where:** preparations, Nur · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your), 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:pg3282:33:115
# text = “Make your preparations at once,” added he, “and be ready to start in the morning.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your preparations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past |  | Nur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **start** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **prepare** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act 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 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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