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title: Upon which she said: ‘Dear master, Schurka and I are going off to a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon which she said: ‘Dear master, Schurka and I are going off to a distant kingdom at the utmost ends of the earth to fetch you back your magic ring. Who acts: Waska, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 162

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Upon which she said: ‘Dear master, Schurka and I are going off to a distant kingdom at the utmost ends of the earth to fetch you back your magic ring.

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**Who acts:** Waska, I · **What happens:** say, go off, fetch back · **To what, where:** utmost ends, magic ring, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waska, 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:pg640:33:162
# text = Upon which she said: ‘Dear master, Schurka and I are going off to a distant kingdom at the utmost ends of the earth to fetch you back your magic ring.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	back	back	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Waska |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go off** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | at the utmost ends of the earth | to a distant kingdom | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 3 | **fetch back** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your magic ring | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary ring=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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