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title: ‘What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of bed, and throws him or her, as the case may be, into the water?’ Who acts: person, case. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 100

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‘What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of bed, and throws him or her, as the case may be, into the water?’

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**Who acts:** person, case · **What happens:** deserve, drag, throw, be · **To what, where:** another, bed, person

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, case), 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:pg540:37:100
# text = ‘What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of bed, and throws him or her, as the case may be, into the water?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drags	drag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present · do-support | that person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drag** | present |  | another |  | bed |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent another=Theme out bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **throw** | present |  | person |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | may | the case |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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