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title: At last he said: “Well, if you won’t tell me, confide your trouble t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he said: “Well, if you won’t tell me, confide your trouble to the iron stove there,” and he went away. Who acts: King, you, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 78

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At last he said: “Well, if you won’t tell me, confide your trouble to the iron stove there,” and he went away.

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**Who acts:** King, you, your · **What happens:** say, not tell, confide, stove, go away, trouble · **To what, where:** last, King, trouble, iron · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, your), 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:pg503:37:78
# text = At last he said: “Well, if you won’t tell me, confide your trouble to the iron stove there,” and he went away.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	confide	confide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	stove	stove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  | King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your trouble | the iron |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic to iron=Recipient |
| 4 | **stove** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go away** | past | King |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **trouble** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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