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title: So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was ne… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place. Who acts: Tree, dinner. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 43

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So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place.

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**Who acts:** Tree, dinner · **What happens:** set, work, boil, roast, be, stroll up · **To what, where:** pointed beard, place

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, dinner), 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:pg2435:31:43
# text = So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Comber	Comber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	strolled	stroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Tree |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boil** | to-infinitive | Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **roast** | infinitive | Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | dinner |  |  |  |  | a little dwarf with a pointed beard *obl*; nearly, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stroll up** | participle |  | a pointed beard *not said here* |  | the place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |

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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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