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title: He said to the man: “Friend! what a rare good stick you have got.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to the man: “Friend! what a rare good stick you have got.” Who acts: man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 51

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He said to the man: “Friend! what a rare good stick you have got.”

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** say, get · **To what, where:** man, rare good stick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg7439:11:51
# text = He said to the man: “Friend! what a rare good stick you have got.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | man |  | the man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the man *= man* | a rare good stick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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