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title: And his mother answered, ‘Very well; to-morrow I will buy him a donk… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And his mother answered, ‘Very well; to-morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.’ Who acts: mother, I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 14

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And his mother answered, ‘Very well; to-morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.’

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**Who acts:** mother, I, you · **What happens:** answer, buy, go together · **To what, where:** donkey, Hassebu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, you), 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:pg641:30:14
# text = And his mother answered, ‘Very well; to-morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hassebu's mother |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | future | I | a donkey | Hassebu |  |  | to morrow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary donkey=Theme |
| 3 | **go together** | can | you |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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