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title: The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must tak… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun. But if one feather was missing when she came back at night his head should pay for it.” Who acts: ogress, man, one feather, head. A sentence of «The Crimson Fa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 44

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The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun. But if one feather was missing when she came back at night his head should pay for it.”

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**Who acts:** ogress, man, one feather, head · **What happens:** follow, tell, take, spread, dry, be · **To what, where:** young man, feathers, pillows, sun. · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, man, one feather, head), 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:pg2435:22:44
# text = The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun. But if one feather was missing when she came back at night his head should pay for it.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the ogress |  | the young man |  | morning |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | must | man | all feathers |  | ogress's pillows |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out pillow=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **spread** | past | the ogress *not said here* | feathers *= feather* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 5 | **dry** | to-infinitive | the ogress *not said here* |  |  | the sun. |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one feather |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **come back** | past | ogress |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **pay** | should | man's head |  |  |  |  | for sun. | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

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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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