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title: ‘Aite,’ he cried to his wife, ‘go quickly to the chest upstairs, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Aite,’ he cried to his wife, ‘go quickly to the chest upstairs, and bring down the money for these gentlemen.’ Who acts: Aite. 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 67

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‘Aite,’ he cried to his wife, ‘go quickly to the chest upstairs, and bring down the money for these gentlemen.’

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**Who acts:** Aite · **What happens:** cry, go, bring down · **To what, where:** wife, chest, money

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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 (Aite), 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:pg5615:17:67
# text = ‘Aite,’ he cried to his wife, ‘go quickly to the chest upstairs, and bring down the money for these gentlemen.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Aite	Aite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Aite |  | Aite's wife |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Aite *not said here* |  |  | the chest |  | quickly, upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring down** | infinitive | Aite *not said here* | the money |  |  |  | for this gentlemen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=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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