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title: I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off; so lie on this bed and rest yourself in peace.” Who acts: I, little dog, Eisenkopf. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 114

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I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off; so lie on this bed and rest yourself in peace.”

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**Who acts:** I, little dog, Eisenkopf · **What happens:** have, begin, howl, be, lie, rest · **To what, where:** little dog, bed, yourself, peace

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little dog, Eisenkopf), 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:pg2435:27:114
# text = I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off; so lie on this bed and rest yourself in peace.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	howl	howl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
12	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a little dog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | future | a little dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **howl** | to-infinitive | a little dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Eisenkopf |  |  |  | still | seven miles *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | infinitive |  |  |  | this bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 6 | **rest** | infinitive |  | yourself |  | peace |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in peace=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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