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title: ‘Fetch me first something to eat and drink, as quickly as possible;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Fetch me first something to eat and drink, as quickly as possible; and after that bring musicians hither, and let us have music all day long.’ Who acts: you, us. 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 196

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‘Fetch me first something to eat and drink, as quickly as possible; and after that bring musicians hither, and let us have music all day long.’

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** fetch, eat, drink, bring, let, have · **To what, where:** something, me, musicians, us, music

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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 (you, us), 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:pg640:33:196
# text = ‘Fetch me first something to eat and drink, as quickly as possible; and after that bring musicians hither, and let us have music all day long.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | imperative | you *not said here* | something | me |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary something=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | present |  | musicians |  |  | after that | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent musician=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | infinitive | us *not said here* | music |  |  | day | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient |

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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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