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title: And she placed a huge dish before him of savoury steaming meat, whic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she placed a huge dish before him of savoury steaming meat, which greatly pleased him, and made him forget his idea of an Englishman being in the castle. Who acts: voice, elephant, Englishman. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependen
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 71

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And she placed a huge dish before him of savoury steaming meat, which greatly pleased him, and made him forget his idea of an Englishman being in the castle.

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**Who acts:** voice, elephant, Englishman · **What happens:** place, steam, make, forget, be · **To what, where:** huge dish, elephant, idea

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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 (voice, elephant, Englishman), 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:pg540:16:71
# text = And she placed a huge dish before him of savoury steaming meat, which greatly pleased him, and made him forget his idea of an Englishman being in the castle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | voice | a huge dish |  |  | before elephant | of savoury steaming meat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before he=Destination |
| 2 | **steam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | voice *not said here* | elephant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | infinitive | elephant *not said here* | elephant's idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | Englishman |  |  |  |  | of a castle | 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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