--- title: He ordered her to roast some veal, and to boil a pair of chickens, a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He ordered her to roast some veal, and to boil a pair of chickens, and gave her some herbs to make a good savoury, and told her to bake the best tart she could make. Who acts: Simon, Nina. 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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 (Simon, Nina), 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:pg7277:26:50 # text = He ordered her to roast some veal, and to boil a pair of chickens, and gave her some herbs to make a good savoury, and told her to bake the best tart she could make. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 roast roast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 veal veal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 savoury savoury NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 tart tart NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past | Simon | | Nina | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **roast** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Simon *not said here* | some veal | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent veal=Patient | | 3 | **boil** | to-infinitive | Simon *not said here* | a pair of chickens | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | | 4 | **give** | past | Simon *not said here* | some herbs | Nina | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient herb=Theme | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Simon *not said here* | a good savoury | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset savoury=Product | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Simon *not said here* | | Nina | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **bake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Simon *not said here* | the best tart | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product | | 8 | **make** | could | Nina | the best tart *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/51/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/)