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title: Then the beautiful lady said: “Go forth at once, and do not return t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the beautiful lady said: “Go forth at once, and do not return to say good-by to your mother, for these things must be done quickly, and the Shoes of Swiftness themselves will carry you to the land of the Three Gray Sisters--for they know the measure of that way.” Who acts: beautiful lady, Shoes
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 44

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Then the beautiful lady said: “Go forth at once, and do not return to say good-by to your mother, for these things must be done quickly, and the Shoes of Swiftness themselves will carry you to the land of the Three Gray Sisters--for they know the measure of that way.”

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**Who acts:** beautiful lady, Shoes, things · **What happens:** say, go, not return, do, carry, know · **To what, where:** good, things, you, land, measure, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (beautiful lady, Shoes, things), 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:pg503:27:44
# text = Then the beautiful lady said: “Go forth at once, and do not return to say good-by to your mother, for these things must be done quickly, and the Shoes of Swiftness themselves will carry you to the land of the Three Gray Sisters--for they know the measure of that way.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Swiftness	Swiftness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	nmod	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
49	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	amod	_	_
50	Sisters	Sister	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
59	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the beautiful lady |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **not** **return** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | good |  |  |  | by your mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | this things |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **carry** *in a quote* | future | the Shoes of Swiftness  shoes | you |  | the land of the Three Gray Sisters |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to land=Destination |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | things *= thing* | the measure of that way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus |
| 8 | **measure** *in a quote* |  |  | that way |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=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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