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title: “What’s to come of it all?” they asked each other; “if we quarrel wi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “What’s to come of it all?” they asked each other; “if we quarrel with him, he’ll let out at us, and at every blow seven will fall. Who acts: officers, we, messenger, blow. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 75

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“What’s to come of it all?” they asked each other; “if we quarrel with him, he’ll let out at us, and at every blow seven will fall.

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**Who acts:** officers, we, messenger, blow · **What happens:** come, ask, quarrel, let out, fall · **To what, where:** each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officers, we, messenger, blow), 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:pg503:42:75
# text = “What’s to come of it all?” they asked each other; “if we quarrel with him, he’ll let out at us, and at every blow seven will fall.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obj	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of success | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | officers *= officer* | each |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **quarrel** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | with messenger | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **let out** *in a quote* | future | messenger |  |  |  |  | at us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at we=Asset |
| 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | future | every blow |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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