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title: ‘Haste and begone, I see the giant close at hand,’ she whispered hur… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Haste and begone, I see the giant close at hand,’ she whispered hurriedly, ‘but when he is asleep, return hither, for I would speak with thee.’ Who acts: I, girl, boy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 91

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‘Haste and begone, I see the giant close at hand,’ she whispered hurriedly, ‘but when he is asleep, return hither, for I would speak with thee.’

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**Who acts:** I, girl, boy · **What happens:** begone, see, whisper, be, return, speak · **To what, where:** Haste · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, boy), 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:pg3454:28:91
# text = ‘Haste and begone, I see the giant close at hand,’ she whispered hurriedly, ‘but when he is asleep, return hither, for I would speak with thee.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	begone	begone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
27	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begone** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | I | Haste |  |  |  | the giant close *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | boy |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | would | I |  |  |  |  | with thee | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thou=Co-Agent |

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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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