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title: The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Og… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Morning’s chamber. Who acts: poor man, Ogress. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 88

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The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Morning’s chamber.

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**Who acts:** poor man, Ogress · **What happens:** know, not play, take, go up · **To what, where:** tricks, great knife, chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, Ogress), 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:pg503:10:88
# text = The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Morning’s chamber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ogresses	ogress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **play** | must | Ogress | tricks |  |  |  | with Ogresses | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with ogress=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the poor man | Ogress's great knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **go up** | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  | little Morning's chamber |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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