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title: Then they said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can work in the ki… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can work in the kitchen; come with us and sweep the ashes together.’ Who acts: huntsmen, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 28

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Then they said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can work in the kitchen; come with us and sweep the ashes together.’

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, you · **What happens:** say, fur, work, come, sweep · **To what, where:** furred Creature, sun, ashes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, you), 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:pg7277:42:28
# text = Then they said to her, ‘Many-furred Creature, you can work in the kitchen; come with us and sweep the ashes together.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	furred	fur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	Creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | furred Creature | sun |  | then |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | can | you |  |  |  |  | in the kitchen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sweep** | infinitive |  | the ashes |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=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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