--- title: When the man came home to the old woman with this answer, she said,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the man came home to the old woman with this answer, she said, ‘I shall be equally well pleased whatever you do with him; but this I do say, that you are to have him made a master over all masters.’ Who acts: man, woman, I, you. 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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 (man, woman, I, you), 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:pg540:43:5 # text = When the man came home to the old woman with this answer, she said, ‘I shall be equally well pleased whatever you do with him; but this I do say, that you are to have him made a master over all masters.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 21 equally equally ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 24 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 have have VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 over over ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 47 det _ _ 47 masters master NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the man | | | | | to the old woman with this answer; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | equally, pleased, well *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | you | | | | | with Jack | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | this | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | participle | you *not said here* | a master | | all masters | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset master=Product | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/6/) - ↑ back to [Farmer Weatherbeard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/)