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title: “By carrying me up to the earth,” answered Paul; and the griffin agr… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “By carrying me up to the earth,” answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey. Who acts: Paul, griffin. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 1

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“By carrying me up to the earth,” answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey.

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**Who acts:** Paul, griffin · **What happens:** carry up, answer, agree, go, get, eat · **To what, where:** Paul, earth, food, way, long journey · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, griffin), 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:pg2435:32:1
# text = “By carrying me up to the earth,” answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | Paul |  | the earth |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to earth=Destination |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the griffin |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | the griffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the griffin *not said here* | some food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the griffin *not said here* | some food *not said here* |  | the way |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | griffin | a long journey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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