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title: Come down at once, whoever you are, or we must come and fetch you.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Come down at once, whoever you are, or we must come and fetch you.’ Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 38

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Come down at once, whoever you are, or we must come and fetch you.’

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** come down, be, come, fetch · **To what, where:** whoever, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg7277:31:38
# text = Come down at once, whoever you are, or we must come and fetch you.’
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you | whoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | must | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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