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title: You yourselves can tell each other tales, and Kai will fetch you fro… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You yourselves can tell each other tales, and Kai will fetch you from the kitchen a flagon of mean and some meat.’ Who acts: You, Kai. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 6

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You yourselves can tell each other tales, and Kai will fetch you from the kitchen a flagon of mean and some meat.’

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**Who acts:** You, Kai · **What happens:** tell, fetch · **To what, where:** other tales, you, kitchen · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Kai), 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:pg3454:30:6
# text = You yourselves can tell each other tales, and Kai will fetch you from the kitchen a flagon of mean and some meat.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flagon	flagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | You | each other tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 2 | **fetch** | future | Kai | you |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from kitchen=Source |

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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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