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title: Go and announce this in the ballroom,’ he added to an attendant, ‘an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and announce this in the ballroom,’ he added to an attendant, ‘and bring the fellow hither.’ Who acts: you, Man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 7

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Go and announce this in the ballroom,’ he added to an attendant, ‘and bring the fellow hither.’

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**Who acts:** you, Man · **What happens:** go, announce, add, bring · **To what, where:** this, ballroom, fellow

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Man), 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:pg3454:3:7
# text = Go and announce this in the ballroom,’ he added to an attendant, ‘and bring the fellow hither.’
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	announce	announce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ballroom	ballroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | this |  | the ballroom |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Man |  |  |  |  | to a attendant and ‘ | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to attendant=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the fellow |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fellow=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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