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title: Then go at once to the stable, and pay no heed to anything except wh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then go at once to the stable, and pay no heed to anything except what I tell you. Who acts: you, I. 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 75

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Then go at once to the stable, and pay no heed to anything except what I tell you.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** go, pay, tell · **To what, where:** stable, heed, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I), 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:pg640:11:75
# text = Then go at once to the stable, and pay no heed to anything except what I tell you.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
15	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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* |  |  | the stable | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no heed |  |  |  | to anything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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