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title: ‘A _gros_ a head!’ cried the citizens, ‘but that will come to millio… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A _gros_ a head!’ cried the citizens, ‘but that will come to millions of florins!’ Who acts: _ gros, that. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 26

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‘A \_gros\_ a head!’ cried the citizens, ‘but that will come to millions of florins!’

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**Who acts:** \_ gros, that · **What happens:** cry, come · **To what, where:** citizens, millions

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ gros, that), 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:pg540:32:26
# text = ‘A _gros_ a head!’ cried the citizens, ‘but that will come to millions of florins!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gros	gros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a \_ gros | the citizens |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | future | that |  |  | millions of florins |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to million=Initial\_Location |

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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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