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title: Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: ‘I heard someone giving an inv… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: ‘I heard someone giving an invitation to eat; is there anything for me?’ Who acts: huge griffin, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 76

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Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: ‘I heard someone giving an invitation to eat; is there anything for me?’

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**Who acts:** huge griffin, I · **What happens:** appear, say, hear, give, eat, be · **To what, where:** someone, invitation, anything · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge griffin, 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:pg5615:22:76
# text = Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: ‘I heard someone giving an invitation to eat; is there anything for me?’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a huge griffin |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a huge griffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I | someone |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  | a invitation |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | a invitation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | anything |  |  |  | for me | tree rules |

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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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