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title: Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King. Who acts: fisherman, whatever. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 4

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Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, whatever · **What happens:** use, go out, fish, catch, sell · **To what, where:** fishing, fish, King

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, whatever), 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:pg640:7:4
# text = Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | fisherman |  |  |  | morning |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | fisherman *not said here* | fishing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fish** |  | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | past | fisherman | fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 5 | **sell** | past | fisherman |  | the King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |

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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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