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title: The squire, however, and his wife and the steward, had much to say t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The squire, however, and his wife and the steward, had much to say to each other about the terrible man they had got, and all were agreed that they must get rid of him in some way or other. Who acts: squire, wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 17

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The squire, however, and his wife and the steward, had much to say to each other about the terrible man they had got, and all were agreed that they must get rid of him in some way or other.

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**Who acts:** squire, wife · **What happens:** have, say, get, agree · **To what, where:** each, terrible man, all, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, wife), 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:pg5615:13:17
# text = The squire, however, and his wife and the steward, had much to say to each other about the terrible man they had got, and all were agreed that they must get rid of him in some way or other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	16	obl	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the squire |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the squire *not said here* |  | each |  |  | about the terrible man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | wife | the terrible man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **get** | must | wife |  |  | some way |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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