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title: The Giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock on a large dish, and they began their supper. Who acts: Giant, wife, bones. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 8

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The Giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock on a large dish, and they began their supper.

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**Who acts:** Giant, wife, bones · **What happens:** sit down, bring up, roast, begin · **To what, where:** roasted bullock, large dish, supper

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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 (Giant, wife, 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:pg540:18:8
# text = The Giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock on a large dish, and they began their supper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the Giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring up** | past | Giant's wife | a roasted bullock |  | a large dish |  | soon *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bullock=Patient |
| 3 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **begin** | past | bones *= bone* | bones's supper |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Eventuality |

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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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