--- title: Then they ate and drank, and when they had finished the little man s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they ate and drank, and when they had finished the little man said: ‘Now I will bring you luck, because you have a kind heart and are willing to share what you have with others. Who acts: cake, little man, 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 (cake, little man, 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:pg540:48:21 # text = Then they ate and drank, and when they had finished the little man said: ‘Now I will bring you luck, because you have a kind heart and are willing to share what you have with others. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 willing willing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | cake | | | | then | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drink** | past | cake *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **finish** | past · perfect | cake | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bring** | future | I | luck | you | | now | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | you | a kind heart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | willing *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **share** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | present | you | | | | | with others | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/22/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)