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title: So sister opened the door and said, ‘Now mind and get back by nightf… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So sister opened the door and said, ‘Now mind and get back by nightfall, and say your little rhyme.’ Who acts: sister, your. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 56

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So sister opened the door and said, ‘Now mind and get back by nightfall, and say your little rhyme.’

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**Who acts:** sister, your · **What happens:** open, say, mind, get back, rhyme · **To what, where:** door, little rhyme · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, 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:pg540:10:56
# text = So sister opened the door and said, ‘Now mind and get back by nightfall, and say your little rhyme.’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | sister | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mind** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **get back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by nightfall | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | your little rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic |
| 6 | **rhyme** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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