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title: ‘Turn out your men, and I’ll go with them, and we’ll soon bring this… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Turn out your men, and I’ll go with them, and we’ll soon bring this robber to reason.’ Who acts: you, I, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 2

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‘Turn out your men, and I’ll go with them, and we’ll soon bring this robber to reason.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, we · **What happens:** turn out, go, bring · **To what, where:** men, robber, reason

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, we), 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:pg3454:16:2
# text = ‘Turn out your men, and I’ll go with them, and we’ll soon bring this robber to reason.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	TO	_	22	case	_	_
22	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | imperative | you *not said here* | your men |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with men *= man* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **bring** | future | we | this robber |  | reason |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robber=Theme to reason=Destination |

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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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