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title: So he took down from its resting-place a rusty old sword that had be… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took down from its resting-place a rusty old sword that had belonged to some of his forebears, and set out in search of adventures. Who acts: resolution, rusty old sword. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 114

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So he took down from its resting-place a rusty old sword that had belonged to some of his forebears, and set out in search of adventures.

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**Who acts:** resolution, rusty old sword · **What happens:** take down, belong, set out, search · **To what, where:** resting place, search, adventures

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resolution, rusty old sword), 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:pg14241:21:114
# text = So he took down from its resting-place a rusty old sword that had belonged to some of his forebears, and set out in search of adventures.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	forebears	forebear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | resolution |  |  | honour's resting place |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | past · perfect | a rusty old sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | resolution *not said here* |  |  | search of adventures |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | adventures |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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