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title: And now go; in that hut, which you can just see far away, live your… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now go; in that hut, which you can just see far away, live your father and mother, who are old people now, and need a son to hunt for them. Who acts: you, father. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 69

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And now go; in that hut, which you can just see far away, live your father and mother, who are old people now, and need a son to hunt for them.

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**Who acts:** you, father · **What happens:** go, see, live, be, need, hunt · **To what, where:** hut, father, old people, son

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), 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:pg3282:8:69
# text = And now go; in that hut, which you can just see far away, live your father and mother, who are old people now, and need a son to hunt for them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | that hut | now |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | that hut |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your father and mother and old people |  |  | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme father=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | your father and mother and old people | old people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present |  | a son |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme |
| 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for people | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=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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