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title: And aloud he said: ‘ All right; follow me, and we will go to a lawye… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And aloud he said: ‘ All right; follow me, and we will go to a lawyer and get him to make a contract.’ Who acts: mad, we. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 35

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And aloud he said: ‘ All right; follow me, and we will go to a lawyer and get him to make a contract.’

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**Who acts:** mad, we · **What happens:** say, follow, go, get, make · **To what, where:** me, mad, contract · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mad, we), 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:pg5615:39:35
# text = And aloud he said: ‘ All right; follow me, and we will go to a lawyer and get him to make a contract.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mad |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | future | we |  |  |  |  | to a lawyer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lawyer=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | mad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | mad *not said here* | a contract |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contract=Product |

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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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