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title: I shouted down into the well: ‘O! servant of God! whoever you are, w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I shouted down into the well: ‘O! servant of God! whoever you are, why do you deal unfairly with me? Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 40

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I shouted down into the well: ‘O! servant of God! whoever you are, why do you deal unfairly with me?

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** shout down, be, deal · **To what, where:** well, whoever

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg3282:5:40
# text = I shouted down into the well: ‘O! servant of God! whoever you are, why do you deal unfairly with me?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout down** *speech: express* | past | I |  |  | the well and servant of God |  | down *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into well=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I *not said here* | whoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | with me; unfairly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=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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