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title: She sent for the steward, and it was arranged that next day all the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She sent for the steward, and it was arranged that next day all the men should go to the forest for fire-wood, and that they should make a bargain among them, that the one who came home last with his load should be hanged. Who acts: wife, men, Hans, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 89

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She sent for the steward, and it was arranged that next day all the men should go to the forest for fire-wood, and that they should make a bargain among them, that the one who came home last with his load should be hanged.

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**Who acts:** wife, men, Hans, one · **What happens:** send, arrange, go, make, come, hange · **To what, where:** steward, forest, bargain, one

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, men, Hans, one), 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:pg5615:12:89
# text = She sent for the steward, and it was arranged that next day all the men should go to the forest for fire-wood, and that they should make a bargain among them, that the one who came home last with his load should be hanged.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	home	home	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | for the steward | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrange** | past · passive |  | steward |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **go** | should | all men |  |  | the forest |  | for fire wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** | should | Hans *= han* | a bargain |  |  |  | among hands *= hand* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product |
| 5 | **come** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | home, last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hange** | should · passive |  | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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