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title: “Ho, ho!” thought the boy, “is it thou who eatest up our hay in the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ho, ho!” thought the boy, “is it thou who eatest up our hay in the night? but I will put a stop to that.” Who acts: Ho, grass, thou. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 31

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“Ho, ho!” thought the boy, “is it thou who eatest up our hay in the night? but I will put a stop to that.”

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**Who acts:** Ho, grass, thou · **What happens:** think, be, eat up, put · **To what, where:** boy, thou, hay, stop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho, grass, thou), 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:pg503:48:31
# text = “Ho, ho!” thought the boy, “is it thou who eatest up our hay in the night? but I will put a stop to that.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	eatest	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ho and ho | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent boy=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | grass | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** *in a quote* | present | thou | our hay |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | future | Ho and ho *= ho* | a stop |  |  |  | to that | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stop=Goal |

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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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