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title: “Give me first a kettle and a tripod,” asked the old w omen, and the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Give me first a kettle and a tripod,” asked the old w omen, and the emperor ordered them to be brought instantly. Who acts: old w, emperor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 56

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“Give me first a kettle and a tripod,” asked the old w omen, and the emperor ordered them to be brought instantly.

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**Who acts:** old w, emperor · **What happens:** give, ask, order, bring · **To what, where:** kettle, old w · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old w, emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:877`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:10:56
# text = “Give me first a kettle and a tripod,” asked the old w omen, and the emperor ordered them to be brought instantly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	w	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur|Typo=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
16	omen	omen	X	GW	_	15	goeswith	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
26	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a kettle and a tripod | the old w *= woman* |  |  | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kettle=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old w |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **order** | past | the emperor |  | kettle |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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