--- title: At last he reached his Granny's house, and said, all in a great hurr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last he reached his Granny's house, and said, all in a great hurry, "Granny, dear, I've promised to get very fat; so, as people ought to keep their promises, please put me into the corn-bin _at once_." Who acts: Lambikin, people. 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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 (Lambikin, people), 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:pg7128:8:145 # text = At last he reached his Granny's house, and said, all in a great hurry, "Granny, dear, I've promised to get very fat; so, as people ought to keep their promises, please put me into the corn-bin _at once_." 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 house house 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 , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 ccomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 25 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 please please INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ _ 43 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 50 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Lambikin | Lambikin's house | | last | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at last=Asset | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lambikin *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | Lambikin | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | ought | people | people's promises | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | people *not said here* | Lambikin | | the corn bin | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Destination | | 7 | **promise** *in a quote* | | people | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/146/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/)