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title: ‘I will just run back again and fetch it now,’ he said to himself, ‘… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will just run back again and fetch it now,’ he said to himself, ‘and then I shall take back a pair of good shoes to the old woman, and she may perhaps throw a kind word to me for once.’ Who acts: I, fellow, woman. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its depen
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 44

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‘I will just run back again and fetch it now,’ he said to himself, ‘and then I shall take back a pair of good shoes to the old woman, and she may perhaps throw a kind word to me for once.’

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**Who acts:** I, fellow, woman · **What happens:** run back, fetch, say, take back, throw · **To what, where:** shoe, fellow, pair, kind word, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fellow, woman), 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:pg540:9:44
# text = ‘I will just run back again and fetch it now,’ he said to himself, ‘and then I shall take back a pair of good shoes to the old woman, and she may perhaps throw a kind word to me for once.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | future | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | shoe |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fellow |  | fellow |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take back** | shall | I | a pair of good shoes to the old woman |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | may | woman | a kind word | me |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent word=Theme to i=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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