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title: “Go send him in, and tell him of his fame; Pray call him Mr. Whittin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go send him in, and tell him of his fame; Pray call him Mr. Whittington by name.” Who acts: you, Pray. 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 85

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“Go send him in, and tell him of his fame; Pray call him Mr. Whittington by name.”

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**Who acts:** you, Pray · **What happens:** go, send, tell, call · **To what, where:** King · **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 (you, Pray), 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:pg7439:37:85
# text = “Go send him in, and tell him of his fame; Pray call him Mr. Whittington by name.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | King |  |  | of King's fame | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | Pray |  | King |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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