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title: Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music. Who acts: ship, musicians. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4

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Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music.

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**Who acts:** ship, musicians · **What happens:** have, rig, play, make · **To what, where:** wires, lovely music

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, musicians), 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:pg2435:5:4
# text = Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rigging	rig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | ship | wires |  |  |  | instead ropes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient |
| 2 | **rig** | gerund | ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | past | musicians |  |  |  |  | on wires *= wire*; with fiddle bows | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | musicians *not said here* | lovely music |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product |

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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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