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title: Come here, child; go into my wardrobe: he never ventures to open _th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Come here, child; go into my wardrobe: he never ventures to open _that;_ you will be safe there.’ Who acts: you, boy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 60

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Come here, child; go into my wardrobe: he never ventures to open \_that;\_ you will be safe there.’

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**Who acts:** you, boy · **What happens:** come, go, not venture, open, be · **To what, where:** child, wardrobe

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy), 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:pg540:16:60
# text = Come here, child; go into my wardrobe: he never ventures to open _that;_ you will be safe there.’
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	ventures	venture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	_	_	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | child |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my wardrobe |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wardrobe=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **venture** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | \_ ventures | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future | you |  |  | there |  | safe *property* | 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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