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title: “Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,” said Wali Dâd, much relieved to be rid of them. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 26

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“Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,” said Wali Dâd, much relieved to be rid of them.

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**Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** take, say, be, bless · **To what, where:** silks, Wali, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali), 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:pg3282:34:26
# text = “Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,” said Wali Dâd, much relieved to be rid of them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the silks | Wali |  | then | with the blessing of a old man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent silk=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wali |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Wali *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of silks *= silk*; rid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bless** *in a quote* |  |  | a old man |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «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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