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title: And she said to her husband: ‘Old man, you had better go out into th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said to her husband: ‘Old man, you had better go out into the fields and find your daughter’s body and bury her.’ Who acts: mother, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 30

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And she said to her husband: ‘Old man, you had better go out into the fields and find your daughter’s body and bury her.’

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**Who acts:** mother, you · **What happens:** say, have, go out, find, bury · **To what, where:** husband, fields, body, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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:pg640:37:30
# text = And she said to her husband: ‘Old man, you had better go out into the fields and find your daughter’s body and bury her.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | mother |  | mother's husband |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your daughter's body |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 5 | **bury** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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