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title: Get me money!’ he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Get me money!’ he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and back again, holding a great purse full of money in his mouth. Who acts: you, soldier. 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 89

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Get me money!’ he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and back again, holding a great purse full of money in his mouth.

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**Who acts:** you, soldier · **What happens:** get, cry off, hold · **To what, where:** money, me, dog, great purse, mouth

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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, soldier), 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:pg640:46:89
# text = Get me money!’ he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and back again, holding a great purse full of money in his mouth.
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	presto	presto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | money | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary money=Theme |
| 2 | **cry off** *speech: express* | past | soldier |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | soldier *not said here* | a great purse |  | soldier's mouth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent purse=Theme in mouth=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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