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title: When he is at home I must hide you, for he has eaten up all my pages… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he is at home I must hide you, for he has eaten up all my pages hitherto, and you would be a dainty morsel, my little lad.’ Who acts: giant, home, you, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 54

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When he is at home I must hide you, for he has eaten up all my pages hitherto, and you would be a dainty morsel, my little lad.’

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**Who acts:** giant, home, you, my · **What happens:** be, hide, eat up, page · **To what, where:** home, you, pages, dainty morsel

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, home, you, my), 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:pg540:16:54
# text = When he is at home I must hide you, for he has eaten up all my pages hitherto, and you would be a dainty morsel, my little lad.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | giant |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | must | home | you |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **eat up** | present · perfect | giant | my pages |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | would | you | a dainty morsel and my little lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **page** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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