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title: And Drakestail, quite content, began to sing again, ‘Quack, quack, q… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Drakestail, quite content, began to sing again, ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’ Who acts: Drakestail, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 75

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And Drakestail, quite content, began to sing again, ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’

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**Who acts:** Drakestail, I · **What happens:** begin, sing, get back · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, I), 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:pg540:31:75
# text = And Drakestail, quite content, began to sing again, ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Drakestail |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Drakestail *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get back** | shall | I | my money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |

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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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