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title: ‘From shelter we shall proceed to demand supper, and from supper mon… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘From shelter we shall proceed to demand supper, and from supper money to take us on our way. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 94

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‘From shelter we shall proceed to demand supper, and from supper money to take us on our way.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** proceed, demand, take · **To what, where:** shelter, supper, us, way

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg7277:12:94
# text = ‘From shelter we shall proceed to demand supper, and from supper money to take us on our way.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | shall | we |  |  | shelter |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | supper |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme supper=Precondition |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | us |  | our way |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme on way=Destination |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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