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title: ‘Well, then, take it,’ said the old hag, ‘and be off with you, but y… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, then, take it,’ said the old hag, ‘and be off with you, but you must make haste with the water.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 124

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‘Well, then, take it,’ said the old hag, ‘and be off with you, but you must make haste with the water.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, say, be, make · **To what, where:** drop, old hag, haste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:42:124
# text = ‘Well, then, take it,’ said the old hag, ‘and be off with you, but you must make haste with the water.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	off	off	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
26	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive |  | drop |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old hag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you; off *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | must | you | haste |  |  |  | with the water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |

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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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