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title: ‘You have been such good children that I am going to send you to vis… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood. Who acts: You, I, granny. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 8

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‘You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood.

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**Who acts:** You, I, granny · **What happens:** be, go, send, visit, live · **To what, where:** such good children, you, granny, dear little hut

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, granny), 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:pg640:39:8
# text = ‘You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | You | such good children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | I | such good children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my granny |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **live** | present | my granny |  |  | a dear little hut in the wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |

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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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