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title: So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the larges… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the largest bread-knife that he could find; then he caught hold of the third loaf on the left-hand side, and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it straight in two. Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 36

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So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the largest bread-knife that he could find; then he caught hold of the third loaf on the left-hand side, and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it straight in two.

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**Who acts:** youth, Dapplegrim · **What happens:** go up, begin, sharpen, find, catch, put · **To what, where:** largest bread knife, hold, hand side, knife, two, third loaf

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, Dapplegrim), 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:pg540:39:36
# text = So the youth went up to the kitchen, and began to sharpen the largest bread-knife that he could find; then he caught hold of the third loaf on the left-hand side, and put the knife to it as if he meant to cut it straight in two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | to the kitchen | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sharpen** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | the largest bread knife |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | could | Dapplegrim | the largest bread knife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic |
| 5 | **catch** | past | Dapplegrim | hold of the third loaf |  | the hand side | then |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | Dapplegrim *not said here* | the knife | knife |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knife=Goal |
| 7 | **mean** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **cut** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dapplegrim *not said here* | knife |  | two |  | straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 9 | **hold** |  |  | the third loaf |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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