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title: Then she asked: ‘One slew none--what is that?’ and he answered: ‘A r… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she asked: ‘One slew none--what is that?’ and he answered: ‘A raven which fed on the carcase of a poisoned horse.’ Who acts: Princess, that, son, raven. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 44

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Then she asked: ‘One slew none--what is that?’ and he answered: ‘A raven which fed on the carcase of a poisoned horse.’

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**Who acts:** Princess, that, son, raven · **What happens:** ask, be, answer, feed, poison

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, that, son, raven), 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:pg7277:47:44
# text = Then she asked: ‘One slew none--what is that?’ and he answered: ‘A raven which fed on the carcase of a poisoned horse.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	slew	slew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	carcase	carcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Princess |  |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feed** | past | a raven |  |  |  |  | on the carcase of a poisoned horse | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on carcase=Patient |
| 5 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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