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title: ‘We shall soon see who is master here,’ and with his paws he set to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We shall soon see who is master here,’ and with his paws he set to work and scraped a large hole in the soft mud walls. Who acts: We, way. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 45

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‘We shall soon see who is master here,’ and with his paws he set to work and scraped a large hole in the soft mud walls.

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**Who acts:** We, way · **What happens:** see, be, set, work, scrape · **To what, where:** master, paws, large hole, soft mud walls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, way), 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:pg7277:13:45
# text = ‘We shall soon see who is master here,’ and with his paws he set to work and scraped a large hole in the soft mud walls.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	scraped	scrape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | shall | We |  |  | here |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past | way | Master's paws *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scrape** | past | way *not said here* | a large hole |  | the soft mud walls |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in wall=Trajectory |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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