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title: She then made ready the pie, and after eating and drinking heartily… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She then made ready the pie, and after eating and drinking heartily myself, I was just taking my leave of the young woman when we observed the giant coming through the castle gates. Who acts: woman, I, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., wi
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 119

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She then made ready the pie, and after eating and drinking heartily myself, I was just taking my leave of the young woman when we observed the giant coming through the castle gates.

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**Who acts:** woman, I, we · **What happens:** make, eat, drink, be, observe, come · **To what, where:** pie, myself, giant, castle gates

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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, we), 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:pg540:8:119
# text = She then made ready the pie, and after eating and drinking heartily myself, I was just taking my leave of the young woman when we observed the giant coming through the castle gates.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
31	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | woman | the pie |  |  | then | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | take *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **observe** | past | we | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  | the castle gates |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial\_Location |

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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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