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title: You shall then step forward again and answer, “It is in a fish.” — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall then step forward again and answer, “It is in a fish.” Who acts: You, heart. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43

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You shall then step forward again and answer, “It is in a fish.”

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**Who acts:** You, heart · **What happens:** step forward, answer, be · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, heart), 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:pg5615:27:43
# text = You shall then step forward again and answer, “It is in a fish.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step forward** | shall | You |  |  |  | then; again | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | heart |  |  |  |  | in a fish | 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 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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