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title: ‘Well, well, go then!’ said the kitchen-maid, ‘but don’t let me find… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, well, go then!’ said the kitchen-maid, ‘but don’t let me find you staying there over the time when the pan has to be set on the fire for supper, and the roast put on the spit; and mind you bring back a good big armful of wood for the kitchen.’ Who acts: kitchen maid, me, you, pan. A sentence 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 14

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‘Well, well, go then!’ said the kitchen-maid, ‘but don’t let me find you staying there over the time when the pan has to be set on the fire for supper, and the roast put on the spit; and mind you bring back a good big armful of wood for the kitchen.’

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**Who acts:** kitchen maid, me, you, pan, roast · **What happens:** go, say, not let, find, stay, have · **To what, where:** kitchen maid, me, you, fire, roast, spit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (kitchen maid, me, you, pan), 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:pg540:45:14
# text = ‘Well, well, go then!’ said the kitchen-maid, ‘but don’t let me find you staying there over the time when the pan has to be set on the fire for supper, and the roast put on the spit; and mind you bring back a good big armful of wood for the kitchen.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
45	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	back	back	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	armful	armful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the kitchen maid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support | the kitchen maid *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | me *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | the pan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **set** | to-infinitive · passive | the pan *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  | for supper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on fire=Destination |
| 8 | **put** | participle |  | the roast *not said here* |  | the spit |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spit=Destination |
| 9 | **mind** | infinitive | the roast | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **bring back** | infinitive | the roast *not said here* | a good big armful of wood |  |  |  | for the kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent armful=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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