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title: ‘Take it, then, you utter disgrace!’ said the old hag, ‘since you ar… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take it, then, you utter disgrace!’ said the old hag, ‘since you are just like these two brats.’ 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 131

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‘Take it, then, you utter disgrace!’ said the old hag, ‘since you are just like these two brats.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, disgrace, say, be · **To what, where:** favour, old hag · **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:pg640:42:131
# text = ‘Take it, then, you utter disgrace!’ said the old hag, ‘since you are just like these two brats.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	brats	brat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive |  | favour |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **disgrace** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old hag and this two brats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | since this two brats |  | tree rules |

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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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