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title: On the second morning the giant had again to go out with his goats,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the second morning the giant had again to go out with his goats, so he told the Prince that on that day he was to fetch home his horse, which was out on the mountain-side, and when he had done that he might rest himself for the remainder of the day, “for you have come to a kind master, and that y
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 44

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On the second morning the giant had again to go out with his goats, so he told the Prince that on that day he was to fetch home his horse, which was out on the mountain-side, and when he had done that he might rest himself for the remainder of the day, “for you have come to a kind master, and that you shall find,” said the giant once more.

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**Who acts:** giant, horse, you · **What happens:** go out, tell, be, do, rest, come · **To what, where:** Prince, mountain side, giant, kind master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, horse, you), 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:pg503:17:44
# text = On the second morning the giant had again to go out with his goats, so he told the Prince that on that day he was to fetch home his horse, which was out on the mountain-side, and when he had done that he might rest himself for the remainder of the day, “for you have come to a kind master, and that you shall find,” said the giant once more.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	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	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
51	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	obj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
61	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
70	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	73	mark	_	_
71	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
72	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	73	aux	_	_
73	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	76	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	73	punct	_	_
76	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obj	_	_
79	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	80	advmod	_	_
80	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	76	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the giant |  |  |  | again; morning | with giant's goats; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with goat=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | giant |  | the Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | giant |  |  |  | day | fetch, home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | giant's horse and the mountain side |  |  | the mountain side |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rest** | might | giant | giant |  |  |  | for the remainder of the day | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  | a kind master |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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