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title: Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live far off in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live far off in the north, and are so very cold that they have only one eye and one tooth among the three. Who acts: you, roads. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 42

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Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live far off in the north, and are so very cold that they have only one eye and one tooth among the three.

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**Who acts:** you, roads · **What happens:** go, live, be, have · **To what, where:** north, one eye

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, roads), 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:pg503:27:42
# text = Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live far off in the north, and are so very cold that they have only one eye and one tooth among the three.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	fixed	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Sisters	Sister	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	off	off	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | must | you |  |  |  | now | to the Gray Sisters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **live** | present |  |  |  | the north |  | off *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | roads *= road* | one eye |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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