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title: In the letter was written, quite plainly: ‘When you receive this let… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the letter was written, quite plainly: ‘When you receive this letter, get ready for a wedding, and let the bearer be married next day to my daughter, Anastasia. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 66

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In the letter was written, quite plainly: ‘When you receive this letter, get ready for a wedding, and let the bearer be married next day to my daughter, Anastasia.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write, receive, get, let, marry · **To what, where:** letter, bearer

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:4:66
# text = In the letter was written, quite plainly: ‘When you receive this letter, get ready for a wedding, and let the bearer be married next day to my daughter, Anastasia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  | the letter |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | present | you | this letter |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | infinitive · passive |  | the bearer |  |  | day | to my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient |

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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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