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title: ‘Here you are at home, so let me go my way,’ it begged once more; ‘o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Here you are at home, so let me go my way,’ it begged once more; ‘or at least make a covenant with me.’ Who acts: you, home, me. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 111

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‘Here you are at home, so let me go my way,’ it begged once more; ‘or at least make a covenant with me.’

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**Who acts:** you, home, me · **What happens:** be, let, go, beg, make · **To what, where:** home, me, way, covenant, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, home, me), 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:pg641:29:111
# text = ‘Here you are at home, so let me go my way,’ it begged once more; ‘or at least make a covenant with me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	parataxis	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	‘	‘	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	obl	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | home *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | home |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | a covenant |  | least |  | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product |

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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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