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title: There, lay hold of these two wicked girls, they will be a tender mor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There, lay hold of these two wicked girls, they will be a tender morsel for you, as fat as young quails; eat them up, for heaven’s sake.” Who acts: girls, young. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 92

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There, lay hold of these two wicked girls, they will be a tender morsel for you, as fat as young quails; eat them up, for heaven’s sake.”

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**Who acts:** girls, young · **What happens:** lie, be, quail, eat up, hold · **To what, where:** hold, tender morsel, girls, two wicked girls

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, young), 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:pg503:36:92
# text = There, lay hold of these two wicked girls, they will be a tender morsel for you, as fat as young quails; eat them up, for heaven’s sake.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	quails	quail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | hold of two wicked girls |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | future | girls *= girl* | a tender morsel |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 3 | **quail** | present | young |  |  |  |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat up** | infinitive |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  | for heaven's sake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | two wicked girls |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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