--- title: She answered: “Fly away, until thou comest to a splendid town, where… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She answered: “Fly away, until thou comest to a splendid town, where stands a king’s palace; seek out the king’s son and tell him that a great misfortune has befallen me.” Who acts: thread, thou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:26:28 # text = She answered: “Fly away, until thou comest to a splendid town, where stands a king’s palace; seek out the king’s son and tell him that a great misfortune has befallen me.” 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 10 comest come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 17 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 befallen befall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | thread | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fly away** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | thou | | | a splendid town | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | | a king's palace | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | | 5 | **seek out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the king's son | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **befall** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | a great misfortune | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/29/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)