--- title: ‘The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there i… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the giant, and save for a craftsman who brings his trade the gate will not be opened to-night.’ Who acts: knife, drink, revelry, craftsman. 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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 (knife, drink, revelry, craftsman), 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:pg3454:39:72 # text = ‘The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the giant, and save for a craftsman who brings his trade the gate will not be opened to-night.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 revelry revelry NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Gwrnach Gwrnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 craftsman craftsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 parataxis _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the knife | | | the meat | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the drink | | | the horn | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | revelry | | | the hall; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location | | 4 | **save** | infinitive | | | | | | for a craftsman | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for craftsman=Source | | 5 | **bring** | present | a craftsman | revelry's trade | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trade=Theme | | 6 | **not** **open** | future · passive | | the gate | | | night | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **trade** | | revelry | | | | | | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/73/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/)