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title: “Then I must give it to you,” answered the man, and led him into a r… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then I must give it to you,” answered the man, and led him into a room where two women and two men were sitting at supper. Who acts: man, two women. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 26

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“Then I must give it to you,” answered the man, and led him into a room where two women and two men were sitting at supper.

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**Who acts:** man, two women · **What happens:** give, answer, lead, sit · **To what, where:** money, you, man, room, supper · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, two women), 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:pg2435:18:26
# text = “Then I must give it to you,” answered the man, and led him into a room where two women and two men were sitting at supper.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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* | must | the man *= man* | money | you |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the man *not said here* | man |  | a room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | two women and two men |  |  | supper |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=Location |

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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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