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title: “Bring the best wine you have got, and two glasses, good mother,” he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bring the best wine you have got, and two glasses, good mother,” he said as he entered, “and if you are fond of fish there is enough here to feed the house. Who acts: you, Father. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 40

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“Bring the best wine you have got, and two glasses, good mother,” he said as he entered, “and if you are fond of fish there is enough here to feed the house.

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**Who acts:** you, Father · **What happens:** bring, get, say, enter, be, feed · **To what, where:** best wine, house · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Father), 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:pg3282:9:40
# text = “Bring the best wine you have got, and two glasses, good mother,” he said as he entered, “and if you are fond of fish there is enough here to feed the house.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
35	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the best wine |  |  |  | two glasses and good mother *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wine=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the best wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **enter** | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of fish; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  | here; there |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **feed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Recipient |

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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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