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title: Mother!’ cried Jack, ‘make haste and give me the axe.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother!’ cried Jack, ‘make haste and give me the axe.’ Who acts: Mother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 9

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Mother!’ cried Jack, ‘make haste and give me the axe.’

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** cry, make, give · **To what, where:** Jack, haste, axe, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother), 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:pg540:20:9
# text = Mother!’ cried Jack, ‘make haste and give me the axe.’
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mother | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive |  | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | the axe | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient axe=Theme |

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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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