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title: ‘Thou to come here to be cured, indeed!’ they cried, ‘thou hast brou… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Thou to come here to be cured, indeed!’ they cried, ‘thou hast brought one big cheek with thee, but thou shalt take away two.’ Who acts: Thou, dwarfs. 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 claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 54

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‘Thou to come here to be cured, indeed!’ they cried, ‘thou hast brought one big cheek with thee, but thou shalt take away two.’

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**Who acts:** Thou, dwarfs · **What happens:** come, cure, cry, bring, take away · **To what, where:** thou, two · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Thou, dwarfs), 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:pg7277:31:54
# text = ‘Thou to come here to be cured, indeed!’ they cried, ‘thou hast brought one big cheek with thee, but thou shalt take away two.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | to-infinitive | Thou |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cure** | to-infinitive · passive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme» |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** | present · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination cheek=Theme |
| 5 | **take away** | shall | thou | two |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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