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title: ‘That’s good!’ replied Blockhead-Hans; ‘then can I roast a crow with… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s good!’ replied Blockhead-Hans; ‘then can I roast a crow with them?’ Who acts: That, Blockhead, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 167

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‘That’s good!’ replied Blockhead-Hans; ‘then can I roast a crow with them?’

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**Who acts:** That, Blockhead, I · **What happens:** be, reply, roast · **To what, where:** crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Blockhead, 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:pg640:50:167
# text = ‘That’s good!’ replied Blockhead-Hans; ‘then can I roast a crow with them?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Blockhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roast** | can | I | a crow |  |  | then | with chickens *= chicken* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crow=Patient with they=Instrument |

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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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