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title: That night the young man slept soundly in his corner, and in the mor… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That night the young man slept soundly in his corner, and in the morning the ogress told him that his work that day would be to slay one of her great oxen, to cook its heart, and to make drinking cups of its horns, before she returned home “There are fifty oxen,” added she, “and you must guess which
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 56

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That night the young man slept soundly in his corner, and in the morning the ogress told him that his work that day would be to slay one of her great oxen, to cook its heart, and to make drinking cups of its horns, before she returned home “There are fifty oxen,” added she, “and you must guess which of the herd I want killed.

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**Who acts:** young man, ogress, work, you, I, herd · **What happens:** sleep, tell, be, cook, make, drink · **To what, where:** corner, man, heart, cups, ogress, herd · **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 (young man, ogress, work, you), 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:pg2435:22:56
# text = That night the young man slept soundly in his corner, and in the morning the ogress told him that his work that day would be to slay one of her great oxen, to cook its heart, and to make drinking cups of its horns, before she returned home “There are fifty oxen,” added she, “and you must guess which of the herd I want killed.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	oxen	oxen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
43	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	xcomp	_	_
44	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	_
52	home	home	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	_
56	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
60	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
63	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
66	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	parataxis	_	_
68	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	71	nsubj	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	ccomp	_	_
72	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
73	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	71	acl:relcl	_	_
74	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	73	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | the young man |  |  | man's corner | night | soundly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the ogress |  | man |  | morning |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | would | man's work |  |  |  |  | slay *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | man's work *not said here* | work's heart |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | man's work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink** | gerund | man's work *not said here* | cups of work's horns |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 7 | **return** | past | ogress |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **add** *speech: assert* | past |  | ogress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **guess** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **want** *in a quote* | present | I | the herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **kill** *not said to happen, in a quote* | participle | the herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 13 | **work** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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