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title: Cry on, my dear, cry on,’ she continued to Tephany. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cry on, my dear, cry on,’ she continued to Tephany. Who acts: you, Barbaik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 55

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Cry on, my dear, cry on,’ she continued to Tephany.

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**Who acts:** you, Barbaik · **What happens:** cry on, continue · **To what, where:** Tephany

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Barbaik), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2967`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:33:55
# text = Cry on, my dear, cry on,’ she continued to Tephany.
1	Cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry on** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my dear *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry on** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **continue** | past | Barbaik |  |  | Tephany |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tephany=Initial\_Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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