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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 49

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The fourth day Paul said to them: “My friends, there must be some reason why your cooking has always been so bad, now you shall go and hunt and I will stay behind.”

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**Who acts:** Paul, friends, cooking, trees, your · **What happens:** say, be, go, hunt, stay, cook · **To what, where:** trees, reason · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, friends, cooking, trees), 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:pg2435:31:49
# text = The fourth day Paul said to them: “My friends, there must be some reason why your cooking has always been so bad, now you shall go and hunt and I will stay behind.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
37	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Paul |  | trees *= tree* |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | My friends | some reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | your cooking |  |  |  |  | always, bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | infinitive | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | Paul |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cook** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom cooking «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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