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title: “To-morrow I will send him into the field to pick some beans for me,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “To-morrow I will send him into the field to pick some beans for me, and you will find him there, and can eat him.” Who acts: bones, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 91

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“To-morrow I will send him into the field to pick some beans for me, and you will find him there, and can eat him.”

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**Who acts:** bones, you · **What happens:** send, pick, find, eat · **To what, where:** Motikatika, field, beans

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, 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:pg2435:29:91
# text = “To-morrow I will send him into the field to pick some beans for me, and you will find him there, and can eat him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | future | the bones *= bone* | Motikatika |  | the field |  | to morrow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to morrow=Destination |
| 2 | **pick** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the bones *= bone* *not said here* | some beans |  |  |  | for the bones *= bone* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bean=Theme for i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | Motikatika |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | can | the bones *= bone* *not said here* | Motikatika |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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