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title: ‘Hey! old man,’ said the witch, ‘get on your clothes as quick as you… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hey! old man,’ said the witch, ‘get on your clothes as quick as you can; we are bidden to the feast. Who acts: old man. 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 62

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‘Hey! old man,’ said the witch, ‘get on your clothes as quick as you can; we are bidden to the feast.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** say, get, bid · **To what, where:** witch, clothes, we · **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 (old man), 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:pg540:14:62
# text = ‘Hey! old man,’ said the witch, ‘get on your clothes as quick as you can; we are bidden to the feast.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | old man | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | old man *not said here* |  |  | your clothes |  | quick *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on clothes=Source |
| 3 | **bid** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | to the feast | tree rules |

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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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