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title: ‘That is quite a meal!’ said the Princess; ‘but where shall we get t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That is quite a meal!’ said the Princess; ‘but where shall we get the soup from?’ Who acts: That, meal, we. 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 171

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‘That is quite a meal!’ said the Princess; ‘but where shall we get the soup from?’

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**Who acts:** That, meal, we · **What happens:** be, say, get · **To what, where:** meal, Princess, soup · **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, meal, we), 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:pg640:50:171
# text = ‘That is quite a meal!’ said the Princess; ‘but where shall we get the soup from?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | quite meal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | quite meal | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | shall | we | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soup=Stimulus |

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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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