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title: ‘Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything.’ Who acts: you, Fiordelisa. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 57

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‘Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything.’

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**Who acts:** you, Fiordelisa · **What happens:** find out, explain · **To what, where:** little kitchen maid, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:5:57
# text = ‘Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the little kitchen maid |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | future | Fiordelisa | everything |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |

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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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