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title: “Let me go at once, or I will give you another kick,” he cried, suit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let me go at once, or I will give you another kick,” he cried, suiting the action to the word, and this time also his foot remained in the grasp of the man. Who acts: breeze, foot. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 81

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“Let me go at once, or I will give you another kick,” he cried, suiting the action to the word, and this time also his foot remained in the grasp of the man.

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**Who acts:** breeze, foot · **What happens:** let, go, give, cry, suit, remain · **To what, where:** breeze, kick, you, action, grasp, 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breeze, foot), 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:pg3282:36:81
# text = “Let me go at once, or I will give you another kick,” he cried, suiting the action to the word, and this time also his foot remained in the grasp of the man.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	suiting	suit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | breeze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | breeze *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | breeze | another kick | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kick=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **suit** | gerund | breeze *not said here* | the action |  |  |  | to the word | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | past | breeze's foot |  |  | the grasp of the man | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grasp=Location |
| 7 | **grasp** |  |  | the man |  |  |  |  | nom grasp «cognition 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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