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title: ‘Give him three years’! give him ten!’ shouted Old Eric, ‘only don’t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Give him three years’! give him ten!’ shouted Old Eric, ‘only don’t let him come near me.’ Who acts: Hans. 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 clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 98

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‘Give him three years’! give him ten!’ shouted Old Eric, ‘only don’t let him come near me.’

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** give, shout, not let, come · **To what, where:** Hans, ten, Old Eric · **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 (Hans), 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:pg5615:13:98
# text = ‘Give him three years’! give him ten!’ shouted Old Eric, ‘only don’t let him come near me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive |  |  | Hans |  | year |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | ten | Hans |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ten=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  | Old Eric |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support |  | Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=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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