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title: So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying, ‘Who wants some shoes?’ Who acts: Sicilianische. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 11

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So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying, ‘Who wants some shoes?’

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**Who acts:** Sicilianische · **What happens:** go, walk, cry, want · **To what, where:** Mascalucia, streets, shoes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sicilianische), 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:pg5615:17:11
# text = So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying, ‘Who wants some shoes?’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mascalucia	Mascalucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sicilianische |  |  | Mascalucia |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mascalucia=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Sicilianische *not said here* |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Sicilianische *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | present |  | some shoes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=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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