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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 29

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Now go and take out the children, so that I may remain alone in the hut,’ and as she spoke she lifted down an old stone pot and put on the liver to cook.

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**Who acts:** you, I, wife · **What happens:** go, take out, remain, speak, lift down, put · **To what, where:** children, hut, old stone pot, liver · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, wife), 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:pg5615:35:29
# text = Now go and take out the children, so that I may remain alone in the hut,’ and as she spoke she lifted down an old stone pot and put on the liver to cook.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | may | I |  |  | the hut |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lift down** | past | wife | a old stone pot |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  | the liver |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on liver=Destination |
| 7 | **cook** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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