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title: He answered, ‘Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He answered, ‘Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the King the bread-soup that he likes so much.’ Who acts: King, bread soup. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 63

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He answered, ‘Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the King the bread-soup that he likes so much.’

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**Who acts:** King, bread soup · **What happens:** answer, come back, cook, like · **To what, where:** bread soup, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, bread soup), 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:pg7277:42:63
# text = He answered, ‘Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the King the bread-soup that he likes so much.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again; hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** | infinitive |  | the bread soup | the King |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary soup=Product |
| 4 | **like** | present | the bread soup |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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