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title: Then Jimmu took it back, and setting it on the platform, commanded i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jimmu took it back, and setting it on the platform, commanded it to become a tanuki. Who acts: Jimmu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 17

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Then Jimmu took it back, and setting it on the platform, commanded it to become a tanuki.

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**Who acts:** Jimmu · **What happens:** take back, set, command, become · **To what, where:** kettle, platform, tanuki · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu), 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:pg2435:39:17
# text = Then Jimmu took it back, and setting it on the platform, commanded it to become a tanuki.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take back** | past | Jimmu | kettle |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | gerund | Jimmu *not said here* | kettle |  | the platform |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on platform=Destination |
| 3 | **command** | past | Jimmu *not said here* | kettle |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | Jimmu *not said here* | a tanuki |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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