--- title: One day, just before Christmas, he said to his wife: “Prepare everyt… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day, just before Christmas, he said to his wife: “Prepare everything for a great feast, to-morrow we will take things with us to the farm that the shepherds there may make merry.” Who acts: shepherd, we, shepherds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, we, shepherds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:6:42 # text = One day, just before Christmas, he said to his wife: “Prepare everything for a great feast, to-morrow we will take things with us to the farm that the shepherds there may make merry.” 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 16 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 39 expl _ _ 38 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 40 merry merry NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shepherd | | shepherd's wife | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **prepare** *in a quote* | infinitive | | everything | | | | for a great feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for feast=Beneficiary | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | future | we | things | | morrow | | with us; to the farm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to morrow=Destination | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | may | the shepherds | merry | | there | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merry=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/43/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/6/)