--- title: She asked him what had put it into his head to come there, for her s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She asked him what had put it into his head to come there, for her son ate everything he saw, and that he would shortly arrive quite mad, and that the young man had better look out. Who acts: woman, son, sun, young man. 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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 (woman, son, sun, young man), 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:pg7277:20:59 # text = She asked him what had put it into his head to come there, for her son ate everything he saw, and that he would shortly arrive quite mad, and that the young man had better look out. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 obj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 29 quite quite ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 xcomp _ _ 39 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | woman | | sun | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **put** | past · perfect · passive | | home | | sun's head | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past | woman's son | everything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 5 | **see** | past | sun | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **arrive** | would | sun | | | | | mad, shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | the young man | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **look out** | infinitive | the young man *not said here* | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/60/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)