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title: ‘Leave the house at once, and go and beg your bread among strangers;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Leave the house at once, and go and beg your bread among strangers;’ and as Martin did not dare to contradict her, he called Schurka and Waska and started off with them to the nearest village in search of work. Who acts: you, Martin. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic R
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 38

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‘Leave the house at once, and go and beg your bread among strangers;’ and as Martin did not dare to contradict her, he called Schurka and Waska and started off with them to the nearest village in search of work.

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**Who acts:** you, Martin · **What happens:** leave, go, beg, not dare, not contradict, call · **To what, where:** house, bread, mother, Schurka, work · **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 (you, Martin), 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:pg640:33:38
# text = ‘Leave the house at once, and go and beg your bread among strangers;’ and as Martin did not dare to contradict her, he called Schurka and Waska and started off with them to the nearest village in search of work.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	dare	dare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	contradict	contradict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive |  | your bread |  |  |  | among strangers | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Martin | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **contradict** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | past | Martin |  | Schurka and Waska |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent schurka=Recipient |
| 7 | **start off** | past | Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with strangers *= stranger*; to the nearest village in search of work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality |
| 8 | **search** |  |  | work |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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