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title: “Perhaps,” he said, “I may bring the Princess back with me, so see t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Perhaps,” he said, “I may bring the Princess back with me, so see that everything is in order; let the gold ornaments be arranged and the whole ship decorated.” Who acts: John, everything, gold ornaments. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 39

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“Perhaps,” he said, “I may bring the Princess back with me, so see that everything is in order; let the gold ornaments be arranged and the whole ship decorated.”

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**Who acts:** John, everything, gold ornaments · **What happens:** say, bring back, see, be, let, arrange · **To what, where:** Princess, order, gold ornaments, whole ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, everything, gold ornaments), 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:pg503:41:39
# text = “Perhaps,” he said, “I may bring the Princess back with me, so see that everything is in order; let the gold ornaments be arranged and the whole ship decorated.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	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 | John |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring back** *in a quote* | may | John |  | the Princess |  |  | with John | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | everything |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the gold ornaments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **arrange** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | the gold ornaments *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **decorate** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the whole ship |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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