--- title: When he got to the forest, he too met the little grey old man, who g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he got to the forest, he too met the little grey old man, who greeted him and said: ‘Give me a piece of your cake and a draught from your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.’ Who acts: Dullhead, little grey old man, 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 (Dullhead, little grey old man, 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:pg540:48:18 # text = When he got to the forest, he too met the little grey old man, who greeted him and said: ‘Give me a piece of your cake and a draught from your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Dullhead | | | | | to the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | | 2 | **meet** | past | Dullhead | the little grey old man | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the little grey old man | | Dullhead | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little grey old man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | a piece of your cake and a draught | me | your bottle | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | I | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/19/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)