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title: So they sent a man with a great heap of pease; and the man cried to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they sent a man with a great heap of pease; and the man cried to all the birds of the air, "Each bird take a pea, and put down a feather." Who acts: geese, great heap, man, bird. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 77

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So they sent a man with a great heap of pease; and the man cried to all the birds of the air, "Each bird take a pea, and put down a feather."

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**Who acts:** geese, great heap, man, bird · **What happens:** send, pease, cry, take, put down · **To what, where:** man, birds, pea, feather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, great heap, man, bird), 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:pg14241:31:77
# text = So they sent a man with a great heap of pease; and the man cried to all the birds of the air, "Each bird take a pea, and put down a feather."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pease	pease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | geese *= goose* | a man |  |  |  | with a great heap | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **pease** | infinitive | a great heap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the man |  | all birds of the air |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | each bird | a pea |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme |
| 5 | **put down** *in a quote* | participle | each bird *not said here* | a feather |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feather=Goal |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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