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title: “Bring out your little boys and girls, Pray do not stay to do their… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bring out your little boys and girls, Pray do not stay to do their curls, For I shall eat so very many, I shall not know if they have any.” Who acts: you, Pray, help, curls. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 126

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“Bring out your little boys and girls, Pray do not stay to do their curls, For I shall eat so very many, I shall not know if they have any.”

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**Who acts:** you, Pray, help, curls · **What happens:** bring out, not stay, do, eat, not know, have · **To what, where:** little boys, curls, many, any

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pray, help, curls), 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:pg503:28:126
# text = “Bring out your little boys and girls, Pray do not stay to do their curls, For I shall eat so very many, I shall not know if they have any.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your little boys and girls |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Pray |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Pray *not said here* | girls's curls |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | shall | help | many |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | shall | help |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | curls *= curl* | any |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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