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title: When they got to the game course the fiddler handed the dwarf a knif… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they got to the game course the fiddler handed the dwarf a knife and fork, and begged him to help himself first, and then to pass the dish on. Who acts: rooms, fiddler. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 22

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When they got to the game course the fiddler handed the dwarf a knife and fork, and begged him to help himself first, and then to pass the dish on.

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**Who acts:** rooms, fiddler · **What happens:** get, hand, beg, help, pass on · **To what, where:** knife, dwarf, fiddler, dish

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms, fiddler), 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:pg7277:55:22
# text = When they got to the game course the fiddler handed the dwarf a knife and fork, and begged him to help himself first, and then to pass the dish on.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  | to the game course *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to course=Result |
| 2 | **hand** | past | the fiddler | a knife and fork | the dwarf |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Destination knife=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the fiddler *not said here* |  | fiddler |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fiddler *not said here* | fiddler |  |  |  | first *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **pass on** | to-infinitive | the fiddler *not said here* | the dish |  |  | then |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |

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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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