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title: “Down at Merry-garden,” replied the wolf, “and if you will not decei… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Down at Merry-garden,” replied the wolf, “and if you will not deceive me I will come for you, at five o'clock tomorrow and get some apples.” Who acts: Merry garden, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 43

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“Down at Merry-garden,” replied the wolf, “and if you will not deceive me I will come for you, at five o'clock tomorrow and get some apples.”

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**Who acts:** Merry garden, you · **What happens:** reply, not deceive, come, get · **To what, where:** wolf, Merry garden, five o'clock, apples · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merry garden, 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:pg7439:17:43
# text = “Down at Merry-garden,” replied the wolf, “and if you will not deceive me I will come for you, at five o'clock tomorrow and get some apples.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Merry	Merry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Merry garden | the wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **deceive** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | Merry garden *= garden* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | future | Merry garden *= garden* |  |  | five o'clock  tomorrow |  | for you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Merry garden *= garden* *not said here* | some apples |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=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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