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title: So he took him to the King’s cellar, and the man sat down before the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took him to the King’s cellar, and the man sat down before the huge casks and drank and drank till he drank up the whole contents of the cellar before the day closed. Who acts: Dullhead, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 55

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So he took him to the King’s cellar, and the man sat down before the huge casks and drank and drank till he drank up the whole contents of the cellar before the day closed.

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**Who acts:** Dullhead, man · **What happens:** take, sit down, drink, drink up, close · **To what, where:** parson, cellar, huge casks, whole contents, day

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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, man), 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:pg540:48:55
# text = So he took him to the King’s cellar, and the man sat down before the huge casks and drank and drank till he drank up the whole contents of the cellar before the day closed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
37	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Dullhead | parson |  | the King's cellar |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cellar=Destination |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | the man |  |  | the huge casks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before cask=Location |
| 3 | **drink** | past | Dullhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | past | Dullhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink up** | past | Dullhead | the whole contents of the cellar |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient |
| 6 | **close** | participle |  | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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