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title: They would get him down into the well, and then have a big mill-ston… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They would get him down into the well, and then have a big mill-stone ready to throw down on top of him--that would settle him. Who acts: men, big mill stone, that. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 20

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They would get him down into the well, and then have a big mill-stone ready to throw down on top of him--that would settle him.

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**Who acts:** men, big mill stone, that · **What happens:** get down, have, throw down, settle · **To what, where:** steward, well, big mill stone, top

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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 (men, big mill stone, that), 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:pg5615:13:20
# text = They would get him down into the well, and then have a big mill-stone ready to throw down on top of him--that would settle him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** | would | men *= man* | steward |  | the well |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | a big mill stone |  |  | then | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **throw down** | to-infinitive | a big mill stone *not said here* |  |  | top of steward |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |
| 4 | **settle** | would | that | steward |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme he=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 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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