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title: ‘Let us set out at once then,’ replied the Prince severely, ‘or else… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let us set out at once then,’ replied the Prince severely, ‘or else really I shall have to leave you where you are. Who acts: you, us, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 49

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‘Let us set out at once then,’ replied the Prince severely, ‘or else really I shall have to leave you where you are.

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**Who acts:** you, us, I · **What happens:** let, set out, reply, have, leave, be · **To what, where:** us, Prince, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, I), 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:pg7277:37:49
# text = ‘Let us set out at once then,’ replied the Prince severely, ‘or else really I shall have to leave you where you are.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	‘	‘	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set out** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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