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title: “Oh! yes, I will soon tell you that; you must go to the rock there u… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! yes, I will soon tell you that; you must go to the rock there under the mountain-ridge, and take the club that is there, and knock on the rocky wall,” said the Master-maid. Who acts: I, you, club, Master maid. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 74

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“Oh! yes, I will soon tell you that; you must go to the rock there under the mountain-ridge, and take the club that is there, and knock on the rocky wall,” said the Master-maid.

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**Who acts:** I, you, club, Master maid · **What happens:** tell, go, take, be, knock, say · **To what, where:** you, mountain ridge, club, rocky wall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, club, Master maid), 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:pg503:17:74
# text = “Oh! yes, I will soon tell you that; you must go to the rock there under the mountain-ridge, and take the club that is there, and knock on the rocky wall,” said the Master-maid.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | I |  | you |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  | the mountain ridge; there |  | to the rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the club |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the club |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **knock** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the rocky wall |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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