--- title: Then he said: ‘Well, now, you’ve been out in the wood all the day an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he said: ‘Well, now, you’ve been out in the wood all the day and I’ve stayed quietly at home, and all the same I know more than you do.’ Who acts: Benjamin, you, I, wood. 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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 (Benjamin, you, I, wood), 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:pg540:41:56 # text = Then he said: ‘Well, now, you’ve been out in the wood all the day and I’ve stayed quietly at home, and all the same I know more than you do.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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 : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Well well INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 obj _ _ 35 than than SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Benjamin | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | the wood | day | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stay** | past | the wood | | | home | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 5 | **know** | present | I | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 6 | **do** | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/57/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)