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title: A little dog was with her, and she said to it, ‘Go out, Little Snow,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little dog was with her, and she said to it, ‘Go out, Little Snow, and see if it will soon be day!’ Who acts: little dog, maiden, dog. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 76

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A little dog was with her, and she said to it, ‘Go out, Little Snow, and see if it will soon be day!’

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**Who acts:** little dog, maiden, dog · **What happens:** be, say, go out, see · **To what, where:** dog, Little Snow, day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dog, maiden, dog), 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:pg540:47:76
# text = A little dog was with her, and she said to it, ‘Go out, Little Snow, and see if it will soon be day!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a little dog |  |  |  |  | with maiden | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | maiden |  | dog |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to it=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | infinitive |  | Little Snow |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | dog | day |  |  |  | soon *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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