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title: The man’s heart smote him heavily, and he thought: “Surely it would… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man’s heart smote him heavily, and he thought: “Surely it would be better to share the last bite with one’s children!” Who acts: heart, it. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 45

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The man’s heart smote him heavily, and he thought: “Surely it would be better to share the last bite with one’s children!”

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**Who acts:** heart, it · **What happens:** smite, think, be, share · **To what, where:** man, last bite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, it), 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:pg503:35:45
# text = The man’s heart smote him heavily, and he thought: “Surely it would be better to share the last bite with one’s children!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | the man's heart | man |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | would | it |  |  |  |  | good, surely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **share** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the last bite |  |  |  | with one children | 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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