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title: ‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-but… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-butter and a glass of milk,’ said Little Lasse. Who acts: I, Little Lasse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 143

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‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-butter and a glass of milk,’ said Little Lasse.

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**Who acts:** I, Little Lasse · **What happens:** come, ask, give, say · **To what, where:** mother, bread, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Little Lasse), 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:pg3454:14:143
# text = ‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-butter and a glass of milk,’ said Little Lasse.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | shall | I |  | mother |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some bread and butter and a glass of milk | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bread=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Lasse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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