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title: So Peter put a piece of black bread in his knapsack, and strapping i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 52

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So Peter put a piece of black bread in his knapsack, and strapping it on his back, took a stout stick in his hand, and set out to seek his fortune.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** put, strap, take, set out, seek · **To what, where:** piece, knapsack, back, stout stick, hand, fortune

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2435:27:52
# text = So Peter put a piece of black bread in his knapsack, and strapping it on his back, took a stout stick in his hand, and set out to seek his fortune.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	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	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	strapping	strap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Peter | a piece of black bread |  | Peter's knapsack |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in knapsack=Destination |
| 2 | **strap** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | piece |  | Peter's back |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on back=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | Peter *not said here* | a stout stick |  | Peter's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **set out** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | Peter's fortune |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |

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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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