--- title: And you know yourself that, only last week, when I sent him to buy a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And you know yourself that, only last week, when I sent him to buy a cask of butter, he returned driving a hundred and fifty ducks which someone had induced him to take, and not one of them would lay.” Who acts: you, I, husband, hundred ducks. 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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 (you, I, husband, hundred ducks), 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:pg3282:29:62 # text = And you know yourself that, only last week, when I sent him to buy a cask of butter, he returned driving a hundred and fifty ducks which someone had induced him to take, and not one of them would lay.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 conj _ _ 29 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 30 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 31 det _ _ 31 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 induced induce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nsubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | you | yourself | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | | 2 | **send** | past | I | husband | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* | a cask of butter | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | | 4 | **return** | past | husband | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **drive** | gerund | husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | | 6 | **induce** | past · perfect | hundred ducks | husband | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | hundred ducks *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **lay** | would | one of ducks | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/63/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)