--- title: This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, and whose beard is thirty feet long who carries a bar of iron upon his shoulders of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarterstaff.” Who acts: request, beard, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (request, beard, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:52:73 # text = This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, and whose beard is thirty feet long who carries a bar of iron upon his shoulders of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarterstaff.” 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 above above ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 hundredweight hundredweight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 quarterstaff quarterstaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this request | | | | | bring *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | this request *not said here* | a half | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | beard | | | | | thirty feet *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | | a bar of iron | | | | upon man's shoulders of five hundredweight | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | man | five hundredweight | | | | as a quarterstaff | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Duration as quarterstaff=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/74/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)