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title: But come, if it so pleases you, let us go near our comrades there an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But come, if it so pleases you, let us go near our comrades there and find out whether we really do understand the language of storks.’ Who acts: you, Highness, us, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 58

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But come, if it so pleases you, let us go near our comrades there and find out whether we really do understand the language of storks.’

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**Who acts:** you, Highness, us, we · **What happens:** come, please, let, go, find out, understand · **To what, where:** you, us, comrades, language

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Highness, us, 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:pg7277:7:58
# text = But come, if it so pleases you, let us go near our comrades there and find out whether we really do understand the language of storks.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **please** | present | Highness | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Highness *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | our comrades; there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near comrade=Location |
| 5 | **find out** | infinitive | Highness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **understand** | present · do-support | we | the language of storks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |

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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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