---
title: Whilst this was going on the fifth Simon had built his forge and ham… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst this was going on the fifth Simon had built his forge and hammered out his iron, and when the king returned from the harbour the magic cross-bow was made. Who acts: this, king, harbour. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/) / 7

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whilst this was going on the fifth Simon had built his forge and hammered out his iron, and when the king returned from the harbour the magic cross-bow was made.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** this, king, harbour · **What happens:** go, build, hammer out, return, make · **To what, where:** forge, fifth Simon, iron, harbour, magic cross-bow

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (this, king, harbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2435:5:7
# text = Whilst this was going on the fifth Simon had built his forge and hammered out his iron, and when the king returned from the harbour the magic cross-bow was made.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hammered	hammer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past · perfect |  | Simon's forge |  | the fifth Simon |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent forge=Theme on simon=Source |
| 3 | **hammer out** | past |  | Simon's iron |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | past | the king |  |  | the harbour |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from harbour=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **make** | past · passive | the harbour *not said here* | the magic cross-bow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/)