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title: The man answered that he had a little hut in the forest, and that sh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man answered that he had a little hut in the forest, and that she could rest there; but he also said that he was one who lived entirely apart from men, and owned no more than the hut, a horse, and a dog, and supported himself by hunting. Who acts: man, queen, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy B
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 71

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The man answered that he had a little hut in the forest, and that she could rest there; but he also said that he was one who lived entirely apart from men, and owned no more than the hut, a horse, and a dog, and supported himself by hunting.

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**Who acts:** man, queen, one · **What happens:** answer, have, rest, say, be, live · **To what, where:** little hut, forest, one, more, man · **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 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen, one), 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:pg5615:33:71
# text = The man answered that he had a little hut in the forest, and that she could rest there; but he also said that he was one who lived entirely apart from men, and owned no more than the hut, a horse, and a dog, and supported himself by hunting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
31	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	no	no	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	obj	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
53	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	52	obj	_	_
54	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | man | a little hut |  | the forest |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Patient |
| 3 | **rest** | could | queen |  |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | past | man | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | past | one |  |  |  |  | from men; apart, entirely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **own** | past | man *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 8 | **support** | past | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 9 | **hunt** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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