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title: Now you must go up to the King and ask for new shoes for me, and for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you must go up to the King and ask for new shoes for me, and for them we must again have ten pounds of iron, twelve pounds of steel, and two smiths, one to hammer and one to hold, but be very particular to see that the hooks are very sharp. Who acts: you, we, hooks. A sentence of «The Red Fairy 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 61

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Now you must go up to the King and ask for new shoes for me, and for them we must again have ten pounds of iron, twelve pounds of steel, and two smiths, one to hammer and one to hold, but be very particular to see that the hooks are very sharp.

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**Who acts:** you, we, hooks · **What happens:** go up, ask, have, hammer, hold, be · **To what, where:** two smiths, ten pounds

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, hooks), 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:pg540:38:61
# text = Now you must go up to the King and ask for new shoes for me, and for them we must again have ten pounds of iron, twelve pounds of steel, and two smiths, one to hammer and one to hold, but be very particular to see that the hooks are very sharp.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	appos	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	hammer	hammer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	very	very	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | must | you | two smiths |  |  | now | to the King | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for new shoes; for me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | must | we | ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel |  |  | again | for shoes *= shoe* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Patient |
| 4 | **hammer** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | particular *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | present | the hooks |  |  |  |  | sharp *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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