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title: When the three rogues heard this, they said to him: ‘Oh, dear Mr. Si… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the three rogues heard this, they said to him: ‘Oh, dear Mr. Simon, do us the favour to tie us up in sacks and throw us into the river that we may give up our thieving ways and become the owners of flocks.’ Who acts: three rogues, rogues, river. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 2

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When the three rogues heard this, they said to him: ‘Oh, dear Mr. Simon, do us the favour to tie us up in sacks and throw us into the river that we may give up our thieving ways and become the owners of flocks.’

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**Who acts:** three rogues, rogues, river · **What happens:** hear, say, do, tie up, throw, give up · **To what, where:** this, him, favour, us, sacks, river · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three rogues, rogues, river), 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:pg7277:27:2
# text = When the three rogues heard this, they said to him: ‘Oh, dear Mr. Simon, do us the favour to tie us up in sacks and throw us into the river that we may give up our thieving ways and become the owners of flocks.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
43	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	xcomp	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | the three rogues | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | rogues *= rogue* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  | the favour | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie up** | to-infinitive |  | us |  | sacks |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer we=Theme into river=Result |
| 6 | **give up** | may | the river | our thieving ways |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Source |
| 7 | **thieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **become** | infinitive | the river *not said here* | the owners of flocks |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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