--- title: ‘I shut them up in the cellar, but in the morning they shall be led… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I shut them up in the cellar, but in the morning they shall be led forth into the forest and shall serve a charcoal burner until they have improved, and will never again suffer poor animals to go hungry.’ Who acts: I, sisters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sisters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:3:48 # text = ‘I shut them up in the cellar, but in the morning they shall be led forth into the forest and shall serve a charcoal burner until they have improved, and will never again suffer poor animals to go hungry.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shut shut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 forth forth ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 charcoal charcoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 burner burner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 improved improve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 42 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut up** | present | I | sisters *= sister* | | the cellar | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **lead** | shall · passive | | sisters *= sister* | | the forest | morning | forth *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into forest=Destination | | 3 | **serve** | shall | | a charcoal burner | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=Attribute | | 4 | **improve** | present · perfect | sisters *= sister* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **suffer** | future | I *not said here* | poor animals | | | again | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/49/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/)