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title: ‘Let us be off after this good-for-nothing Fanfaronade, for with out… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let us be off after this good-for-nothing Fanfaronade, for with out a doubt he has run away with our Princess.’ Who acts: you, us, Fanfaronade. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 56

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‘Let us be off after this good-for-nothing Fanfaronade, for with out a doubt he has run away with our Princess.’

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**Who acts:** you, us, Fanfaronade · **What happens:** let, be, run away · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, us, Fanfaronade), 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:pg540:4:56
# text = ‘Let us be off after this good-for-nothing Fanfaronade, for with out a doubt he has run away with our Princess.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	xcomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obl	_	_
13	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  | after nothing |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run away** | present · perfect | Fanfaronade |  |  |  |  | with a doubt; with our Princess; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with doubt=Material |

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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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