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title: ‘Let me tell you, then, that there is in this city a creature which,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let me tell you, then, that there is in this city a creature which, if you do not put an end to it, will kill every single person in the place.’ Who acts: you, me, city, creature. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 58

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‘Let me tell you, then, that there is in this city a creature which, if you do not put an end to it, will kill every single person in the place.’

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**Who acts:** you, me, city, creature · **What happens:** let, tell, be, not put, kill · **To what, where:** me, you, end, city, single person, place · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, city, creature), 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:pg3454:4:58
# text = ‘Let me tell you, then, that there is in this city a creature which, if you do not put an end to it, will kill every single person in the place.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** | present | this city  a creature |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | a creature | a end | city |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 5 | **kill** | future | a creature *not said here* | every single person |  | the place |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

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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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