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title: “Change yourself into a mouse,” said the bones; and so he did, and t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Change yourself into a mouse,” said the bones; and so he did, and the ogre grew tired of waiting, and told the woman she must invent some other plan. Who acts: bones, Motikatika, ogre. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree a
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 90

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“Change yourself into a mouse,” said the bones; and so he did, and the ogre grew tired of waiting, and told the woman she must invent some other plan.

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**Who acts:** bones, Motikatika, ogre · **What happens:** change, say, do, grow, wait, tell · **To what, where:** yourself, woman, other plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, Motikatika, ogre), 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:pg2435:29:90
# text = “Change yourself into a mouse,” said the bones; and so he did, and the ogre grew tired of waiting, and told the woman she must invent some other plan.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	iobj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  | into a mouse *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into mouse=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past | Motikatika |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the ogre |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | the ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the bones *not said here* |  | the woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **invent** | must | Ogre | some other plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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