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title: ‘Oh, go with me,’ said the man; ‘if we three are together we shall e… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, go with me,’ said the man; ‘if we three are together we shall easily travel through the wide world.’ Who acts: man, we. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 10

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‘Oh, go with me,’ said the man; ‘if we three are together we shall easily travel through the wide world.’

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**Who acts:** man, we · **What happens:** go, say, be, travel · **To what, where:** wide world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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:pg640:19:10
# text = ‘Oh, go with me,’ said the man; ‘if we three are together we shall easily travel through the wide world.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advcl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **travel** | shall | we |  |  | the wide world |  | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=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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