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title: The eldest answered quickly, ‘Let him drive all the wolves of the ki… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The eldest answered quickly, ‘Let him drive all the wolves of the kingdom on to this hill before to-morrow night. Who acts: eldest, you, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 18

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The eldest answered quickly, ‘Let him drive all the wolves of the kingdom on to this hill before to-morrow night.

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**Who acts:** eldest, you, King · **What happens:** answer, let, drive on · **To what, where:** King, wolves, hill

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (eldest, you, King), 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:pg640:15:18
# text = The eldest answered quickly, ‘Let him drive all the wolves of the kingdom on to this hill before to-morrow night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle | the eldest |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive on** | infinitive | King *not said here* | all wolves of the kingdom |  | this hill |  | before *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme to hill=Trajectory |

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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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