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title: When the seven years had quite gone, the Fiend came with his book, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the seven years had quite gone, the Fiend came with his book, and, pointing at the signatures, said, ‘I will take you underground with me; you shall have a meal there. Who acts: seven years, Fiend, I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother, wit
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 60

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When the seven years had quite gone, the Fiend came with his book, and, pointing at the signatures, said, ‘I will take you underground with me; you shall have a meal there.

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**Who acts:** seven years, Fiend, I, you · **What happens:** go, come, point, say, take, have · **To what, where:** signatures, you, meal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven years, Fiend, I, you), 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:pg640:9:60
# text = When the seven years had quite gone, the Fiend came with his book, and, pointing at the signatures, said, ‘I will take you underground with me; you shall have a meal there.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	signatures	signature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the seven years |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Fiend |  |  |  |  | with Fiend's book | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  | the signatures |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fiend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | future | I |  | you |  |  | with me; underground *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 6 | **have** | shall | you | a meal |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |

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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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