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title: They went to fetch Snowflake, and said to Marie: ‘Let her come and d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went to fetch Snowflake, and said to Marie: ‘Let her come and dance with us.’ Who acts: woods, Snowflake. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57

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They went to fetch Snowflake, and said to Marie: ‘Let her come and dance with us.’

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**Who acts:** woods, Snowflake · **What happens:** go, fetch, say, let, come, dance · **To what, where:** Snowflake, Marie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, Snowflake), 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:pg5615:16:57
# text = They went to fetch Snowflake, and said to Marie: ‘Let her come and dance with us.’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | woods *= wood* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | woods *= wood* *not said here* | Snowflake |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowflake=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woods *= wood* *not said here* |  | Marie |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to marie=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | Snowflake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | Snowflake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dance** | infinitive | Snowflake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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