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title: As soon as she left the room to do so, the three little men consulte… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she left the room to do so, the three little men consulted what they should give her as a reward for being so sweet and good, and for sharing her last crust with them. Who acts: stepmother, three little men, dwarfs, reward. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwar
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 35

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As soon as she left the room to do so, the three little men consulted what they should give her as a reward for being so sweet and good, and for sharing her last crust with them.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, three little men, dwarfs, reward · **What happens:** leave, do, consult, give, be, share · **To what, where:** room, stepmother, last crust

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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 (stepmother, three little men, dwarfs, reward), 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:pg540:37:35
# text = As soon as she left the room to do so, the three little men consulted what they should give her as a reward for being so sweet and good, and for sharing her last crust with them.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | stepmother | the room |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consult** | past | the three little men |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | should | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  | stepmother |  |  | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | a reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | a reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **share** | gerund | the three little men *not said here* | stepmother's last crust |  |  |  | with dwarfs *= dwarf* | 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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