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title: ‘And I will have you,’ ‘And I you,’ exclaimed two of his friends, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And I will have you,’ ‘And I you,’ exclaimed two of his friends, and they all rode back to the palace together. Who acts: I, you, friends. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 17

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‘And I will have you,’ ‘And I you,’ exclaimed two of his friends, and they all rode back to the palace together.

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**Who acts:** I, you, friends · **What happens:** have, exclaim, rode back · **To what, where:** you, two

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, friends), 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:pg641:35:17
# text = ‘And I will have you,’ ‘And I you,’ exclaimed two of his friends, and they all rode back to the palace together.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	rode	rode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | I | you |  |  |  | ‘ *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | you | two of emperor's friends |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent two=Topic |
| 3 | **rode back** | present | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | to the palace; together *property* | tree rules |

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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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