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title: Then she gave the Princess a roast chicken to eat, and warned her to… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she gave the Princess a roast chicken to eat, and warned her to be very careful not to lose any of the bones, because they might be of great use to her. Who acts: Princess, bones. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 127

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Then she gave the Princess a roast chicken to eat, and warned her to be very careful not to lose any of the bones, because they might be of great use to her.

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**Who acts:** Princess, bones · **What happens:** give, eat, warn, be, not lose · **To what, where:** roast chicken, Princess, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bones), 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:pg540:12:127
# text = Then she gave the Princess a roast chicken to eat, and warned her to be very careful not to lose any of the bones, because they might be of great use to her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Princess | a roast chicken | the Princess |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient chicken=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | a roast chicken *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Princess *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive |  | any |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | might | bones *= bone* |  | Princess |  |  | of great use | 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 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.

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