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title: ‘Well, well! to-morrow don’t go galloping over the meadows, but disp… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, well! to-morrow don’t go galloping over the meadows, but disperse amid the thick forests.’ Who acts: disperse amid. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 218

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‘Well, well! to-morrow don’t go galloping over the meadows, but disperse amid the thick forests.’

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**Who acts:** disperse amid · **What happens:** not go, gallop, forest · **To what, where:** meadows

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disperse amid), 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:pg540:7:218
# text = ‘Well, well! to-morrow don’t go galloping over the meadows, but disperse amid the thick forests.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	disperse	disperse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gallop** | gerund |  |  |  | the meadows |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory |
| 3 | **forest** |  | disperse amid |  |  |  |  |  | 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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