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title: And dashing open the door of the fifth stall, he told the goblins in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And dashing open the door of the fifth stall, he told the goblins inside that they must go and drink up the brook, and catch the fish. Who acts: master, brook. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 17

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And dashing open the door of the fifth stall, he told the goblins inside that they must go and drink up the brook, and catch the fish.

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**Who acts:** master, brook · **What happens:** dash, open, tell, go, drink up, catch · **To what, where:** door, goblins, brook, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, brook), 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:pg641:11:17
# text = And dashing open the door of the fifth stall, he told the goblins inside that they must go and drink up the brook, and catch the fish.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	dashing	dash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	iobj	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive |  | the door of the fifth stall |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | master |  | the goblins |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent goblin=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | must | brook |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **drink up** | infinitive | brook *not said here* | the brook |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Patient |
| 6 | **catch** | infinitive |  | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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