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title: He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head, ‘Grandfa… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head, ‘Grandfather, let us build a hut,’ and Big Lion consented. Who acts: hare, us, Big Lion. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 106

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He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head, ‘Grandfather, let us build a hut,’ and Big Lion consented.

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**Who acts:** hare, us, Big Lion · **What happens:** say, come, let, build, consent · **To what, where:** Big, idea, head, us, hut · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, us, Big Lion), 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:pg5615:35:106
# text = He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head, ‘Grandfather, let us build a hut,’ and Big Lion consented.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	into	into	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	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hare |  | Big |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the idea |  | hare's head and Grandfather |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | infinitive | us *not said here* | a hut |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
| 5 | **consent** | past | Big Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «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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