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title: When he had done this, he could wield the sword with the greatest of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had done this, he could wield the sword with the greatest of ease, and felt himself strong enough to do anything, even to fight the giants he had left outside, who were no doubt wondering why he had not opened the gate to them before this time. Who acts: Niels, giants. A sentence of «The Cri
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 51

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When he had done this, he could wield the sword with the greatest of ease, and felt himself strong enough to do anything, even to fight the giants he had left outside, who were no doubt wondering why he had not opened the gate to them before this time.

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**Who acts:** Niels, giants · **What happens:** do, wield, feel, fight, leave, wonder · **To what, where:** this, sword, Niels, anything, giants · **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 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, giants), 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:pg2435:30:51
# text = When he had done this, he could wield the sword with the greatest of ease, and felt himself strong enough to do anything, even to fight the giants he had left outside, who were no doubt wondering why he had not opened the gate to them before this time.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	wield	wield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	parataxis	_	_
42	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	ccomp	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	_
51	before	before	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Niels | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wield** | could | Niels | the sword |  |  |  | with the greatest | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Niels *not said here* | Niels |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Niels *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Niels *not said here* | the giants |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | past · perfect | Niels | the giants *not said here* |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 7 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | the giants |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **not** **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | Niels |  |  | time |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme gate=Destination |

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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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