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title: The young man pointed to the king, who was still bound to the fir; a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 74

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The young man pointed to the king, who was still bound to the fir; and without wasting words the magician took hold of the tree also, and with a mighty heave both fir and man went spinning through the air, and vanished in the clouds after the gallows.

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** point, bind, waste, take, go, spin · **To what, where:** young man, king, words, hold, air, clouds

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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:pg2435:14:74
# text = The young man pointed to the king, who was still bound to the fir; and without wasting words the magician took hold of the tree also, and with a mighty heave both fir and man went spinning through the air, and vanished in the clouds after the gallows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
4	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	heave	heave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
35	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc:preconj	_	_
36	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
40	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	after	after	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | participle |  | the young man *not said here* | the king |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 2 | **bind** | past · passive |  | the king |  |  | still | to the fir | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to fir=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **waste** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | the young man | hold of the tree |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a mighty heave both fir and man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **spin** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory |
| 7 | **vanish** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  | the clouds | after the gallows |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hold** |  |  | the tree |  |  |  |  | nom hold «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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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