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title: Come, let us go to my mother’; and taking Elsa’s hand she led her de… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, let us go to my mother’; and taking Elsa’s hand she led her deeper into the wood, the little black dog jumping up beside them and barking with pleasure. Who acts: you, us, Elsa, little black dog. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependenc
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 29

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Come, let us go to my mother’; and taking Elsa’s hand she led her deeper into the wood, the little black dog jumping up beside them and barking with pleasure.

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**Who acts:** you, us, Elsa, little black dog · **What happens:** come, let, go, take, lead, jump up · **To what, where:** us, hand, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, Elsa, little black dog), 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:pg641:2:29
# text = Come, let us go to my mother’; and taking Elsa’s hand she led her deeper into the wood, the little black dog jumping up beside them and barking with pleasure.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
13	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | Elsa's hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | past | Elsa |  |  | the wood and the little black dog |  | deep *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into wood=Destination |
| 6 | **jump up** | gerund | the little black dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside strawberries *= strawberry* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory |
| 7 | **bark** | gerund | the little black dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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