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title: ‘What!’ cried the sly Titty, ‘they are coming with great pomp to fet… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What!’ cried the sly Titty, ‘they are coming with great pomp to fetch you, and you are not afraid to show yourself to so many fine lords and ladies with your hair down like that? Who acts: gypsies, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tre
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 209

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‘What!’ cried the sly Titty, ‘they are coming with great pomp to fetch you, and you are not afraid to show yourself to so many fine lords and ladies with your hair down like that?

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**Who acts:** gypsies, you · **What happens:** cry, come, fetch, not be, show down · **To what, where:** sly Titty, you, yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gypsies, you), 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:pg540:40:209
# text = ‘What!’ cried the sly Titty, ‘they are coming with great pomp to fetch you, and you are not afraid to show yourself to so many fine lords and ladies with your hair down like that?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	iobj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	ccomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  | the sly Titty |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titty=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | gypsies *= gypsy* |  |  |  |  | with great pomp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | gypsies *= gypsy* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **show down** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | yourself |  |  | with your hair; like that | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient |

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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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