--- title: What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?’ said th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?’ said the second. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 9 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 9 What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?’ said the second. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** name, fortune, give, say · **To what, where:** Ivan, second · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg641:4:9 # text = What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?’ said the second. 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fortune fortune VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | shall | we | Ivan | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute | | 2 | **fortune** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | shall | we | | Ivan | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the second | | | | | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/10/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)