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title: “I will see about that,” said the giant, and went away to the bench,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will see about that,” said the giant, and went away to the bench, but the bag was standing there, and it was so full that gold and silver dropped out when the giant untied the string. Who acts: I, bag, gold, giant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 93

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“I will see about that,” said the giant, and went away to the bench, but the bag was standing there, and it was so full that gold and silver dropped out when the giant untied the string.

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**Who acts:** I, bag, gold, giant · **What happens:** see, say, go away, stand, be, drop out · **To what, where:** giant, bench, string · **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 (I, bag, gold, giant), 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:pg503:17:93
# text = “I will see about that,” said the giant, and went away to the bench, but the bag was standing there, and it was so full that gold and silver dropped out when the giant untied the string.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  | about that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go away** | past |  |  |  | the bench |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bench=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | the bag |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | bag |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drop out** | past | gold and silver |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **untie** | past | the giant | the string |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |

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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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