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title: “I am coming,” answered his wife; and then she cried, “Anne, sister… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am coming,” answered his wife; and then she cried, “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou not see anyone coming?” Who acts: wife, sister, Anne. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 59

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“I am coming,” answered his wife; and then she cried, “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou not see anyone coming?”

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**Who acts:** wife, sister, Anne · **What happens:** come, answer, cry, do, not see · **To what, where:** thou, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, sister, Anne), 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:pg503:40:59
# text = “I am coming,” answered his wife; and then she cried, “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou not see anyone coming?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | beard's wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | beard's wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sister |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Anne and sister Anne | thou |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | sister *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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