--- title: He said to them, ‘You must now make merry together, and eat and drin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He said to them, ‘You must now make merry together, and eat and drink,’ and he led them into a room which had a floor of iron; the doors were also of iron, and the windows were barred with iron. Who acts: King, You, room, doors. 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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 (King, You, room, doors), 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:pg640:19:46 # text = He said to them, ‘You must now make merry together, and eat and drink,’ and he led them into a room which had a floor of iron; the doors were also of iron, and the windows were barred with iron. 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 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 11 merry merry ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 drink drink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 barred bar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | hunter | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | must | You | | | | now | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lead** | past | King | hunter | | a room | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | | 6 | **have** | past | a room | a floor of iron | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | | 7 | **is** | past | the doors | | | | | of iron | tree rules | | 8 | **bar** | past · passive | | the windows | | | | with iron | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/47/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/)