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title: “Then you must fast again,” replied the old woman, “and go on fastin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then you must fast again,” replied the old woman, “and go on fasting till you receive the gifts of all the good spirits. Who acts: old woman, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 115

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“Then you must fast again,” replied the old woman, “and go on fasting till you receive the gifts of all the good spirits.

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**Who acts:** old woman, you · **What happens:** reply, go, receive, gift · **To what, where:** fasting, gifts, good spirits · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, 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:pg3282:6:115
# text = “Then you must fast again,” replied the old woman, “and go on fasting till you receive the gifts of all the good spirits.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  | again |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the old woman *not said here* |  |  | fasting |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fasting=Location |
| 3 | **receive** *in a quote* | present | you | the gifts of all good spirits |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 4 | **gift** *in a quote* |  |  | all good spirits |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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