--- title: So she took them in, and set them down before the fire, and gave the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So she took them in, and set them down before the fire, and gave them milk and bread; but just as they had begun to eat a great knock came to the door, and a dreadful voice said: Who acts: woman, man, great knock, dreadful voice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man, great knock, dreadful voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:25:10 # text = So she took them in, and set them down before the fire, and gave them milk and bread; but just as they had begun to eat a great knock came to the door, and a dreadful voice said: 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | woman | man | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **set down** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | man | | the fire | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before fire=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | woman *not said here* | milk and bread | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past · perfect | man | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | a great knock | | | the door | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a dreadful voice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/25/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/25/11/) - ↑ back to [Molly Whuppie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/25/)