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title: ‘Make haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Make haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon the King will arrange a grand marriage for you.’ Who acts: you, us, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 49

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‘Make haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon the King will arrange a grand marriage for you.’

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**Who acts:** you, us, King · **What happens:** make, let, get away, arrange · **To what, where:** haste, us, ugly tower, grand marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, King), 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:pg540:11:49
# text = ‘Make haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon the King will arrange a grand marriage for you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get away** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | this ugly tower |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tower=Source |
| 4 | **arrange** | future | the King | a grand marriage |  |  |  | for you; soon *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent marriage=Product for you=Beneficiary |

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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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