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title: One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, ‘Let o… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, ‘Let our eldest daughter bring me my lunch into the wood; and so that she shall not lose her way, I will take a bag of millet with me, and sprinkle the seed on the path.’ Who acts: woodcutter, eldest daughter, wife, I. A sentence of «The 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 103

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One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, ‘Let our eldest daughter bring me my lunch into the wood; and so that she shall not lose her way, I will take a bag of millet with me, and sprinkle the seed on the path.’

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**Who acts:** woodcutter, eldest daughter, wife, I · **What happens:** go, say, let, bring, not lose, take · **To what, where:** One morning, eldest daughter, lunch, me, wood, 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter, eldest daughter, wife, I), 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:pg5615:2:103
# text = One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, ‘Let our eldest daughter bring me my lunch into the wood; and so that she shall not lose her way, I will take a bag of millet with me, and sprinkle the seed on the path.’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | woodcutter | One morning *not said here* |  |  |  | to woodcutter's work | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woodcutter |  |  |  | morning | to woodcutter's wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | our eldest daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | our eldest daughter *not said here* | my lunch | me | the wood |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination lunch=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | shall | wife | wife's way |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 6 | **take** | future | I | a bag of millet |  |  |  | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 7 | **sprinkle** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the seed |  | the path |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme on path=Destination |
| 8 | **work** |  | woodcutter |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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