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title: ‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fet… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’ Who acts: cinder wench, Prince, thing. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 113

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‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’

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**Who acts:** cinder wench, Prince, thing · **What happens:** not be, say, go, fetch, let, try · **To what, where:** last, thing, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cinder wench, Prince, thing), 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:pg540:14:113
# text = ‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wench	wench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the cinder wench |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | thing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  | the things |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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