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title: He thanked Hans for having fished so well, and said that now he had… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He thanked Hans for having fished so well, and said that now he had an errand for him, which he could only give to a trusty servant, and that was to journey to Purgatory, and demand three years tribute, which, he said, was owing to him from that quarter. Who acts: fish, that. A sentence of «The Pink
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 69

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He thanked Hans for having fished so well, and said that now he had an errand for him, which he could only give to a trusty servant, and that was to journey to Purgatory, and demand three years tribute, which, he said, was owing to him from that quarter.

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**Who acts:** fish, that · **What happens:** thank, fish, say, have, give, be · **To what, where:** Hans, errand, trusty servant, journey, Purgatory, years tribute · **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 (fish, 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:pg5615:13:69
# text = He thanked Hans for having fished so well, and said that now he had an errand for him, which he could only give to a trusty servant, and that was to journey to Purgatory, and demand three years tribute, which, he said, was owing to him from that quarter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	fished	fish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	demand	demand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	compound	_	_
43	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | fish |  | Hans |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=Theme |
| 2 | **fish** | gerund · perfect | fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | fish | a errand |  |  | now | for Hans | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | could | fish | a errand | a trusty servant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to servant=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | that | journey | Purgatory |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **demand** *speech: request* | infinitive |  | years tribute |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tribute=Precondition |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fish | years tribute |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 9 | **owe** | past · progressive | fish *not said here* |  | fish | that quarter |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |

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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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