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title: ‘Oh, shoemaker’s boy, you needn’t be in such a hurry!’ said the Sold… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, shoemaker’s boy, you needn’t be in such a hurry!’ said the Soldier to him. Who acts: you, shoemaker boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 128

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‘Oh, shoemaker’s boy, you needn’t be in such a hurry!’ said the Soldier to him.

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**Who acts:** you, shoemaker boy · **What happens:** need, not be, say · **To what, where:** shoemaker boy, hurry, Soldier · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shoemaker boy), 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:pg640:46:128
# text = ‘Oh, shoemaker’s boy, you needn’t be in such a hurry!’ said the Soldier to him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | you | shoemaker boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | such hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shoemaker boy | the Soldier | soldier |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic to he=Recipient |

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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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