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title: All Peter’s plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All Peter’s plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root—that master-key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard-of luck. Who acts: plans, Peter, master key. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 58

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All Peter’s plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root—that master-key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard-of luck.

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**Who acts:** plans, Peter, master key · **What happens:** succeed, hold, unlock, bring, plan · **To what, where:** magic root, hand, doors, possessor

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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 (plans, Peter, master key), 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:pg2435:16:58
# text = All Peter’s plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root—that master-key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard-of luck.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
20	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	unlock	unlock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	possessor	possessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past · perfect | all Peter's plans |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Peter | the magic root and that master key |  | Peter's hand |  | actually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **unlock** | would | that master key | all doors |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | all Peter's plans *not said here* | plan's possessor |  |  |  | unheard *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent possessor=Theme |
| 5 | **plan** |  | all Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition 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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