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title: Then the sheriff said (for he too had been bidden to the wedding at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the sheriff said (for he too had been bidden to the wedding at Court): “Yonder away in the thicket dwells a maiden, and if you can get her to lend you the handle of the shovel that she uses to make up her fire I know very well that it will hold fast.” Who acts: sheriff, you, three, fire. A sent
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 4

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Then the sheriff said (for he too had been bidden to the wedding at Court): “Yonder away in the thicket dwells a maiden, and if you can get her to lend you the handle of the shovel that she uses to make up her fire I know very well that it will hold fast.”

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**Who acts:** sheriff, you, three, fire · **What happens:** say, bid, dwell, get, lend, use · **To what, where:** sheriff, maiden, thicket, three, handle, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheriff, you, three, fire), 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:pg503:19:4
# text = Then the sheriff said (for he too had been bidden to the wedding at Court): “Yonder away in the thicket dwells a maiden, and if you can get her to lend you the handle of the shovel that she uses to make up her fire I know very well that it will hold fast.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
53	very	very	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
59	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sheriff |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** | past · perfect · passive |  | sheriff |  |  |  | to the wedding at Court | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present |  | a maiden |  | the thicket |  | away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location |
| 4 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | three *not said here* | the handle of the shovel | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient handle=Theme |
| 6 | **use** *in a quote* | present | three |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the sheriff *= sheriff* *not said here* | three's fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot |
| 8 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the sheriff *= sheriff* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **hold** *in a quote* | future | fire |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **fire** *in a quote* |  | three |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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