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title: And Dullhead replied: ‘I’ve only got a cinder-cake and some sour bee… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Dullhead replied: ‘I’ve only got a cinder-cake and some sour beer, but if you care to have that, let us sit down and eat.’ Who acts: Dullhead, I, you, us. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 19

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And Dullhead replied: ‘I’ve only got a cinder-cake and some sour beer, but if you care to have that, let us sit down and eat.’

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**Who acts:** Dullhead, I, you, us · **What happens:** reply, get, care, have, let, sit down · **To what, where:** cinder cake, that, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, I, you, us), 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:pg540:48:19
# text = And Dullhead replied: ‘I’ve only got a cinder-cake and some sour beer, but if you care to have that, let us sit down and eat.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Dullhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present · perfect | I | a cinder cake and some sour beer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus |
| 3 | **care** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit down** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **eat** | present | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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