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title: Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three little dogs of different colors; the first will be white, the second black, the third red. Who acts: you, first. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 50

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Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three little dogs of different colors; the first will be white, the second black, the third red.

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**Who acts:** you, first · **What happens:** go out, find, be · **To what, where:** town, three little dogs

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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, first), 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:pg503:2:50
# text = Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three little dogs of different colors; the first will be white, the second black, the third red.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the town |  |  |  | by the south gate | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | three little dogs of different colors |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | future | the first |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the first *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the first *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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