--- title: The old man gave her a basket, and tying it round Frisk’s neck she s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old man gave her a basket, and tying it round Frisk’s neck she said to him: ‘Go and find out the best cooking-pot in the town and bring the contents to me.’ Who acts: old man, Rosette. 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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 (old man, Rosette), 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:pg540:11:231 # text = The old man gave her a basket, and tying it round Frisk’s neck she said to him: ‘Go and find out the best cooking-pot in the town and bring the contents to me.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 tying tie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Frisk frisk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 28 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 contents contents NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 35 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the old man | a basket | Rosette | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient basket=Theme | | 2 | **tie** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | basket | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient neck=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rosette | round Frisk's neck *not said here* | Frisk | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Topic to he=Recipient | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find out** | infinitive | | the best cooking pot | | the town | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic | | 6 | **bring** | infinitive | | the contents | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme to i=Destination | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/230/) - next →: [sentence 232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/232/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)