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title: The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them; but you must go straight to the table-drawer, and take out three bits of bread, and if you hear anyone snoring, pluck three feathers from his head; he will not waken for that.’ Who acts: people, you, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 67

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The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them; but you must go straight to the table-drawer, and take out three bits of bread, and if you hear anyone snoring, pluck three feathers from his head; he will not waken for that.’

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**Who acts:** people, you, Weatherbeard · **What happens:** be, not be, awake, go, take out, hear · **To what, where:** people, table drawer, three bits, anyone snoring, three feathers, head

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, you, Weatherbeard), 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:pg540:43:67
# text = The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them; but you must go straight to the table-drawer, and take out three bits of bread, and if you hear anyone snoring, pluck three feathers from his head; he will not waken for that.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sound	sound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
46	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	47	compound	_	_
47	snoring	snoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
49	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
50	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	’	'	SYM	NFP	_	11	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | all, asleep, sound *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **awake** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | must | you |  |  | the table drawer |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to drawer=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **take out** | infinitive | the people *not said here* | three bits of bread |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | anyone snoring |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snoring=Stimulus |
| 7 | **pluck** | infinitive | the people *not said here* | three feathers |  | Weatherbeard's head |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from head=Source |
| 8 | **not** **waken** | future | Weatherbeard |  |  |  |  | for that | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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