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title: And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by, and from a rough digger… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by, and from a rough digger he was changed into a stately bald-headed king. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 101

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And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by, and from a rough digger he was changed into a stately bald-headed king.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** pluck, change · **To what, where:** leaf, tree, man, rough digger

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2435:18:101
# text = And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by, and from a rough digger he was changed into a stately bald-headed king.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	digger	digger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | past | man | a leaf |  | a tree |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from tree=Source |
| 2 | **change** | past · passive |  | man |  | a rough digger |  | into a stately headed king *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from digger=Initial\_State into king=Result |

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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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