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title: This he was delighted to do, and having first fetched from his own g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 79

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This he was delighted to do, and having first fetched from his own garden all the strawberries, cherries, nuts and flowers he could find, they sat down together and were very merry.

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**Who acts:** This, supper, flowers · **What happens:** be, do, fetch, find, sit down · **To what, where:** strawberries, own garden, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, supper, flowers), 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:pg540:35:79
# text = This he was delighted to do, and having first fetched from his own garden all the strawberries, cherries, nuts and flowers he could find, they sat down together and were very merry.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
11	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fetch** | gerund · perfect | This *not said here* | all strawberries and cherries and nuts and flowers |  | supper's own garden |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from garden=Source |
| 4 | **find** | could | supper | flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | down, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | flowers *= flower* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | 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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