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title: And other boys and girls would say ‘Look, there goes brave Walter, w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And other boys and girls would say ‘Look, there goes brave Walter, who is brave enough to fight with four.’ Who acts: other boys. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 120

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And other boys and girls would say ‘Look, there goes brave Walter, who is brave enough to fight with four.’

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**Who acts:** other boys · **What happens:** say, look, go, be, fight · **To what, where:** brave Walter · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other boys), 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:pg3454:7:120
# text = And other boys and girls would say ‘Look, there goes brave Walter, who is brave enough to fight with four.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | other boys and girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | other boys and girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | present |  | brave Walter |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walter=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | brave, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with four | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with four=Co-Agent |

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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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