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title: ‘Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be angry,’ thought the Emperor, and there came out the nightingale. Who acts: us, we. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 22

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‘Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be angry,’ thought the Emperor, and there came out the nightingale.

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**Who acts:** us, we · **What happens:** let, see, be, begin, think, come out · **To what, where:** us, other casket, Emperor, nightingale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, 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:pg640:43:22
# text = ‘Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be angry,’ thought the Emperor, and there came out the nightingale.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the other casket |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent emperor=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 7 | **come out** | past |  | the nightingale |  | there |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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