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title: Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down the road there is another herd, which I will give you as a present! Who acts: cattle, you, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 239

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Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down the road there is another herd, which I will give you as a present!

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**Who acts:** cattle, you, I · **What happens:** be, begin, give · **To what, where:** herd, you

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, you, I), 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:pg640:41:239
# text = Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down the road there is another herd, which I will give you as a present!
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some cattle |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | another herd |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | another herd | you |  |  | as a present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme |

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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 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.

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