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title: There must be stables and horses and grooms and slaves; go and see a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There must be stables and horses and grooms and slaves; go and see about it!” Who acts: stables. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 134

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There must be stables and horses and grooms and slaves; go and see about it!”

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**Who acts:** stables · **What happens:** be, go, see

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stables), 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:pg503:12:134
# text = There must be stables and horses and grooms and slaves; go and see about it!”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | must | stables and horses and grooms and slaves |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about Slave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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