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title: Therefore, when Master Peter came along, and let himself be taken in… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, when Master Peter came along, and let himself be taken in by her boasted skill as a housewife, she jumped at his offer, and they were married the next day. Who acts: Master Peter, boasted skill, Ilse, Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, pa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 21

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Therefore, when Master Peter came along, and let himself be taken in by her boasted skill as a housewife, she jumped at his offer, and they were married the next day.

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**Who acts:** Master Peter, boasted skill, Ilse, Peter · **What happens:** come along, let, take in, boast, jump, marry · **To what, where:** Peter, offer, folks

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master Peter, boasted skill, Ilse, Peter), 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:pg2435:16:21
# text = Therefore, when Master Peter came along, and let himself be taken in by her boasted skill as a housewife, she jumped at his offer, and they were married the next day.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	housewife	housewife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past | Master Peter |  |  |  |  | along, therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | Master Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take in** | infinitive · passive | Ilse's boasted skill | Peter |  |  |  | as a housewife | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as housewife=Attribute |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **jump** | past | Ilse |  |  | Peter's offer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at offer=Trajectory |
| 6 | **marry** | past · passive |  | folks *= folk* |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **offer** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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