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title: Niels tore this in two, and put one half in his pocket, leaving the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Niels tore this in two, and put one half in his pocket, leaving the other half on the table. Who acts: Niels. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 47

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Niels tore this in two, and put one half in his pocket, leaving the other half on the table.

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**Who acts:** Niels · **What happens:** tore, put, leave · **To what, where:** this, two, one half, pocket, other half, table

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels), 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:pg2435:30:47
# text = Niels tore this in two, and put one half in his pocket, leaving the other half on the table.
1	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past | Niels | this |  | two |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Niels *not said here* | one half |  | Niels's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Niels *not said here* | the other half |  | the table |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent half=Theme on table=Location |

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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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