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title: He who has fowls, let him take fowls; he who has a goat, let him tak… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He who has fowls, let him take fowls; he who has a goat, let him take a goat; he who has rice, let him take rice.’ Who acts: youth, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 133

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He who has fowls, let him take fowls; he who has a goat, let him take a goat; he who has rice, let him take rice.’

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**Who acts:** youth, you · **What happens:** fowl, let, take, have · **To what, where:** youth, fowls, goat, rice

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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:pg641:29:133
# text = He who has fowls, let him take fowls; he who has a goat, let him take a goat; he who has rice, let him take rice.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fowls	fowl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fowl** | present | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | fowls |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | youth | a goat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | youth *not said here* |  | a goat |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination |
| 7 | **have** | present | youth | rice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **take** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | rice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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