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title: First you must call together your attendants, and order them to rema… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 69

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First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** call together, order, remain, want · **To what, where:** attendants, little hamlet

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:11:69
# text = First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hamlet	hamlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call together** *speech: assert* | must | you | your attendants |  |  |  | first, together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient |
| 2 | **order** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a little hamlet |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hamlet=Location |
| 4 | **want** | present | you | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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