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title: And this you must also do in order to deceive the King: you must sli… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And this you must also do in order to deceive the King: you must slip into his bed-chamber very softly, and stop up all the bells which are round his bed with cotton. Who acts: this, you, bells. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, with its dependency tre
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 14

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And this you must also do in order to deceive the King: you must slip into his bed-chamber very softly, and stop up all the bells which are round his bed with cotton.

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**Who acts:** this, you, bells · **What happens:** do, deceive, slip, stop up, be · **To what, where:** King, bed chamber, bells

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, bells), 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:pg640:13:14
# text = And this you must also do in order to deceive the King: you must slip into his bed-chamber very softly, and stop up all the bells which are round his bed with cotton.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	round	round	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | must | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | the King |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 3 | **slip** | must | you |  |  | King's bed chamber |  | softly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **stop up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all bells |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bell=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | all bells |  |  |  |  | round King's bed; with cotton | 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 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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