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title: Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night.” Who acts: sup, bit. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 36

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Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night.”

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**Who acts:** sup, bit · **What happens:** not drink, not swallow · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sup, bit), 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:pg7439:16:36
# text = Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night.”
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sup	sup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** | shall | a sup |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **swallow** | shall | a bit | this |  |  | night |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |

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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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