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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 48

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From that day Peter saved up every penny that his daughter Lucia gave him on the sly, and bribed the boys of his acquaintance to spy out a black woodpecker’s nest for him.

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**Who acts:** Peter, daughter · **What happens:** save up, give, bribe, spy out, acquaint · **To what, where:** penny, Peter, sly, boys, nest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, daughter), 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:pg2435:16:48
# text = From that day Peter saved up every penny that his daughter Lucia gave him on the sly, and bribed the boys of his acquaintance to spy out a black woodpecker’s nest for him.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bribed	bribe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save up** | past | Peter | every penny |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Peter's daughter |  | Peter | the sly |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme on sly=Asset |
| 3 | **bribe** | past | Peter *not said here* | the boys of Peter's acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 4 | **spy out** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | a black woodpecker's nest |  |  |  | for Peter | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus |
| 5 | **acquaint** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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