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title: And sure enough at that instant the Bad One called out to his servan… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And sure enough at that instant the Bad One called out to his servant, “You did not bring food that would satisfy a sparrow Fetch some more at once, for I am perfectly starving.” Who acts: servant, food, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its d
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 22

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And sure enough at that instant the Bad One called out to his servant, “You did not bring food that would satisfy a sparrow Fetch some more at once, for I am perfectly starving.”

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**Who acts:** servant, food, I · **What happens:** call out, not bring, satisfy, fetch, starve · **To what, where:** Bad One, servant, food, sparrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, food, I), 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:pg3282:7:22
# text = And sure enough at that instant the Bad One called out to his servant, “You did not bring food that would satisfy a sparrow Fetch some more at once, for I am perfectly starving.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the Bad One *not said here* | sight's servant |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | past · do-support | sight's servant *= servant* | food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **satisfy** *in a quote* | would | food | a sparrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at once=Asset |
| 5 | **starve** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | 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 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.

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