--- title: “It is a magical basket, and if you are hungry you have only got to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “It is a magical basket, and if you are hungry you have only got to say: ‘Little basket, little basket, do your duty,’ and you will eat the best dinner you ever had in your life. Who acts: basket, you. 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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 (basket, you), 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:pg3282:9:23 # text = “It is a magical basket, and if you are hungry you have only got to say: ‘Little basket, little basket, do your duty,’ and you will eat the best dinner you ever had in your life. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 magical magical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 38 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 advmod _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | basket | a magical basket | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | you | the best dinner | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | the best dinner *not said here* | | your life | ever | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/24/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/)