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title: So he called them to him, and said: “Your mother brought me as her d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he called them to him, and said: “Your mother brought me as her dowry two stools and a straw bed; I have, besides, a hen, a pot of pinks, and a silver ring, which were given me by a noble lady who once lodged in my poor cottage. Who acts: laborer, mother, noble lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 2

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So he called them to him, and said: “Your mother brought me as her dowry two stools and a straw bed; I have, besides, a hen, a pot of pinks, and a silver ring, which were given me by a noble lady who once lodged in my poor cottage.

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**Who acts:** laborer, mother, noble lady · **What happens:** call, say, bring, have, give, lodge · **To what, where:** possessions, him, laborer, hen, silver ring, poor cottage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laborer, mother, noble lady), 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:pg503:22:2
# text = So he called them to him, and said: “Your mother brought me as her dowry two stools and a straw bed; I have, besides, a hen, a pot of pinks, and a silver ring, which were given me by a noble lady who once lodged in my poor cottage.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	stools	stool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	iobj	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
53	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	54	advmod	_	_
54	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | laborer | possessions *= possession* | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | laborer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | Your mother |  | laborer |  |  | as mother's dowry and two stools and a straw bed | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | laborer | a hen and a pot of pinks and a silver ring |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | past · passive | a noble lady | a silver ring | laborer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient i=Theme |
| 6 | **lodge** *in a quote* | past | a noble lady |  |  | my poor cottage |  | once *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location |

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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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