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title: “Go and take it from him, and come back as soon as possible.” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go and take it from him, and come back as soon as possible.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 192

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“Go and take it from him, and come back as soon as possible.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, take, come back · **To what, where:** sorcerer

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg503:2:192
# text = “Go and take it from him, and come back as soon as possible.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | sorcerer |  |  |  | from One | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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