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title: Ciccu understood what they were thinking, and, drawing forty gold pi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ciccu understood what they were thinking, and, drawing forty gold pieces from his pocket, he held out twenty to each, saying, ‘Take these and turn them to good account. Who acts: Ciccu, brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 70

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Ciccu understood what they were thinking, and, drawing forty gold pieces from his pocket, he held out twenty to each, saying, ‘Take these and turn them to good account.

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**Who acts:** Ciccu, brothers · **What happens:** understand, think, draw, hold out, say, take · **To what, where:** forty gold pieces, pocket, twenty, these, brothers, good account · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, brothers), 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:pg5615:37:70
# text = Ciccu understood what they were thinking, and, drawing forty gold pieces from his pocket, he held out twenty to each, saying, ‘Take these and turn them to good account.
1	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
11	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | Ciccu |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | Ciccu *not said here* | forty gold pieces |  | Ciccu's pocket |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hold out** | past | Ciccu | twenty |  |  |  | to each | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ciccu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 7 | **turn** | infinitive |  | brothers *= brother* |  | good account |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to account=Trajectory |

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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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