--- title: Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, ‘Go and strike with t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, ‘Go and strike with this rod three times upon the ground on the place which the King showed you, and to-morrow morning the wall will be there.’ Who acts: Crab, King, wall. 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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 (Crab, King, wall), 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:pg640:7:20 # text = Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, ‘Go and strike with this rod three times upon the ground on the place which the King showed you, and to-morrow morning the wall will be there.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 strike strike VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the Crab | a golden rod | Go | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rod=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Crab *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | the place | time | upon the ground | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location | | 4 | **strike** | infinitive | | | | | | with this rod | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rod=Theme | | 5 | **show** | past | the King | the place | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic | | 6 | **is** | future | the wall | | | | morning | there *property* | tree rules | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/21/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Crab(5)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/)