--- title: ‘She agreed to the scheme I proposed, and, cutting off the child’s f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘She agreed to the scheme I proposed, and, cutting off the child’s finger, by her direction I soon had it at the house she told me of, and brought her the little pig in the place of it. Who acts: woman, 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 (woman, 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:pg540:8:118 # text = ‘She agreed to the scheme I proposed, and, cutting off the child’s finger, by her direction I soon had it at the house she told me of, and brought her the little pig in the place of it. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 scheme scheme NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 proposed propose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | woman | | | | | to the scheme | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **propose** | past | I | the scheme *not said here* | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme | | 3 | **cut off** | gerund | woman *not said here* | the child's finger | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | past | I | finger | | the house | | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 6 | **bring** | past | woman *not said here* | the little pig | woman | the place of finger | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination pig=Theme | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/119/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)