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title: ‘Now let me go,’ he cried at last, ‘for poor Mogarzea must be dying… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now let me go,’ he cried at last, ‘for poor Mogarzea must be dying of hunger. Who acts: you, me, boy, poor Mogarzea. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 39

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‘Now let me go,’ he cried at last, ‘for poor Mogarzea must be dying of hunger.

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**Who acts:** you, me, boy, poor Mogarzea · **What happens:** let, go, cry, die · **To what, where:** me, last

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, boy, poor Mogarzea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:3742`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:44:39
# text = ‘Now let me go,’ he cried at last, ‘for poor Mogarzea must be dying of hunger.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Mogarzea	Mogarzea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | boy |  |  | last |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 4 | **die** | must · progressive | poor Mogarzea |  |  |  |  | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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