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title: I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along; they are ev… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along; they are even larger than lentils, and will show her the way.’ Who acts: I, peas. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 17

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I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along; they are even larger than lentils, and will show her the way.’

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**Who acts:** I, peas · **What happens:** take, strew, be, show · **To what, where:** plenty, peas, way, child

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, peas), 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:pg5615:3:17
# text = I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along; they are even larger than lentils, and will show her the way.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strew	strew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	lentils	lentil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | plenty of peas |  |  |  | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme |
| 2 | **strew** | infinitive | I *not said here* | peas *= pea* |  |  |  | along *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | than lentils; large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | future |  | the way | child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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