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title: “Boil some water, and get him ready for cooking, while I go and invi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Boil some water, and get him ready for cooking, while I go and invite my friends the water-demons to the feast.” Who acts: you, woman. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 41

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“Boil some water, and get him ready for cooking, while I go and invite my friends the water-demons to the feast.”

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**Who acts:** you, woman · **What happens:** boil, get, go, invite · **To what, where:** water, ball, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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:pg3282:7:41
# text = “Boil some water, and get him ready for cooking, while I go and invite my friends the water-demons to the feast.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Boil	boil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | some water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | ball |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **invite** *in a quote* | infinitive | woman *not said here* | my friends |  |  |  | to the feast | tree rules |

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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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