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title: “And now,” said he, “as I have supped well, and it is not time yet t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And now,” said he, “as I have supped well, and it is not time yet to go to bed, tell me what you dreamed last night.” Who acts: king, sight, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 19

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“And now,” said he, “as I have supped well, and it is not time yet to go to bed, tell me what you dreamed last night.”

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**Who acts:** king, sight, you · **What happens:** say, sup, not be, go, tell, dream · **To what, where:** time, bed, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sight, you), 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:pg503:30:19
# text = “And now,” said he, “as I have supped well, and it is not time yet to go to bed, tell me what you dreamed last night.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	supped	sup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | king |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sup** *in a quote* | present · perfect | king |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | sight | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | bed | yet |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | king *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **dream** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | night |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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