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title: ‘Nonsense!’ said the wife, ‘it is only a roasted bullock that I thou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nonsense!’ said the wife, ‘it is only a roasted bullock that I thought would be a tit-bit for your supper; sit down and I will bring it up at once.’ Who acts: Nonsense, I, wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 7

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‘Nonsense!’ said the wife, ‘it is only a roasted bullock that I thought would be a tit-bit for your supper; sit down and I will bring it up at once.’

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**Who acts:** Nonsense, I, wife · **What happens:** say, roast, be, think, sit down, bring up · **To what, where:** roasted bullock, tit bit, Nonsense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense, I, wife), 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:pg540:18:7
# text = ‘Nonsense!’ said the wife, ‘it is only a roasted bullock that I thought would be a tit-bit for your supper; sit down and I will bring it up at once.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	tit	tit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Nonsense | a roasted bullock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | a roasted bullock |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | would | the wife | a tit bit |  |  |  | for your supper | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bring up** | future | I | Nonsense |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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