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title: ‘Well, if that is the case,’ said the manikin, ‘sit down beside me;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, if that is the case,’ said the manikin, ‘sit down beside me; we can rest for a little and have something to eat. Who acts: that, we. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 21

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‘Well, if that is the case,’ said the manikin, ‘sit down beside me; we can rest for a little and have something to eat.

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**Who acts:** that, we · **What happens:** be, say, sit down, rest, have, eat · **To what, where:** case, manikin, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, 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:pg640:35:21
# text = ‘Well, if that is the case,’ said the manikin, ‘sit down beside me; we can rest for a little and have something to eat.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that | the case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the manikin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manikin=Topic |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | beside me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location |
| 4 | **rest** | can | we |  |  |  |  | for a little | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | we *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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