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title: ‘And what kind of word did you give them?’ asked another old sorcerer. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And what kind of word did you give them?’ asked another old sorcerer. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 161

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‘And what kind of word did you give them?’ asked another old sorcerer.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, ask · **To what, where:** doings, old sorcerer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:7:161
# text = ‘And what kind of word did you give them?’ asked another old sorcerer.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | you |  | doings *= doing* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | another old sorcerer |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sorcerer=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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