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title: ‘No,’ he answered, ‘there is no need for that; only go and hide unde… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No,’ he answered, ‘there is no need for that; only go and hide under that tub till our eleven brothers come in, and I’ll soon make matters right with them.’ Who acts: Benjamin, need, you, eleven brothers. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 51

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‘No,’ he answered, ‘there is no need for that; only go and hide under that tub till our eleven brothers come in, and I’ll soon make matters right with them.’

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**Who acts:** Benjamin, need, you, eleven brothers, I · **What happens:** answer, be, go, hide, come in, make · **To what, where:** tub · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin, need, you, eleven brothers), 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:pg540:41:51
# text = ‘No,’ he answered, ‘there is no need for that; only go and hide under that tub till our eleven brothers come in, and I’ll soon make matters right with them.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
35	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Benjamin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no need for that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | that tub |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tub=Location |
| 5 | **come in** | present | our eleven brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | future | I |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with brothers *= brother*; right *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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