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title: ‘Go then,’ said the countess, ‘and make proof of that which thou has… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Go then,’ said the countess, ‘and make proof of that which thou hast promised.’ Who acts: you, thou, proof. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9

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‘Go then,’ said the countess, ‘and make proof of that which thou hast promised.’

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**Who acts:** you, thou, proof · **What happens:** go, say, make, have, promise, proof · **To what, where:** countess, proof, that · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, proof), 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:pg3454:31:9
# text = ‘Go then,’ said the countess, ‘and make proof of that which thou hast promised.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl	_	_
19	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	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* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | the countess and ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countess=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | proof of that |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proof=Product |
| 4 | **have** | present | thou | proof of that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | proof of that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **proof** |  |  | that |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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