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title: ‘Good evening! good evening!’ said the old hag; ‘but what errand hav… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Good evening! good evening!’ said the old hag; ‘but what errand have you that can bring you here? Who acts: errand. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 135

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‘Good evening! good evening!’ said the old hag; ‘but what errand have you that can bring you here?

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**Who acts:** errand · **What happens:** say, errand, bring · **To what, where:** old hag, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (errand), 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:pg540:6:135
# text = ‘Good evening! good evening!’ said the old hag; ‘but what errand have you that can bring you here?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old hag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **errand** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | can · present | errand |  | you | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |

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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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