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title: “A friend,” answered the other; “I come to bring you good news of yo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “A friend,” answered the other; “I come to bring you good news of your ship _Unicorn_.” Who acts: friend. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 81

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“A friend,” answered the other; “I come to bring you good news of your ship \_Unicorn\_.”

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** answer, come, bring · **To what, where:** other, good news, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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:pg7439:37:81
# text = “A friend,” answered the other; “I come to bring you good news of your ship _Unicorn_.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Unicorn	Unicorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | a friend | the other |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | a friend *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a friend *= friend* *not said here* | good news of your ship | you |  |  | Unicorn *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination news=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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