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title: He likewise distributed presents to all the servants in the house, n… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He likewise distributed presents to all the servants in the house, not forgetting even his old enemy the cook, though she little deserved it. Who acts: God, cook. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 77

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He likewise distributed presents to all the servants in the house, not forgetting even his old enemy the cook, though she little deserved it.

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**Who acts:** God, cook · **What happens:** distribute, not forget, deserve · **To what, where:** presents, servants, house, old enemy, enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, cook), 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:pg503:29:77
# text = He likewise distributed presents to all the servants in the house, not forgetting even his old enemy the cook, though she little deserved it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	distributed	distribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distribute** | past | God | presents | all servants | the house |  | likewise *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to servant=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | gerund | God *not said here* | God's old enemy |  |  |  | the cook *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | past | cook | enemy |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |

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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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