--- title: Then she said: ‘My dearest Benjamin, your father has had these coffi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she said: ‘My dearest Benjamin, your father has had these coffins made for you and your eleven brothers, because if I bring a girl into the world you are all to be killed and buried in them.’ Who acts: Queen, father, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, father, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:41:10 # text = Then she said: ‘My dearest Benjamin, your father has had these coffins made for you and your eleven brothers, because if I bring a girl into the world you are all to be killed and buried in them.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dearest dear ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 Benjamin Benjamin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 coffins coffin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 35 all all ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present · perfect | your father | this coffins | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient | | 3 | **make** | participle | | this coffins *not said here* | | | | for you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **bring** | present | I | | a girl | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | | 5 | **kill** | present · passive | | you | | the world | | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **bury** | participle | | | | | | in coffins *= coffin* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in they=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/11/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)