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title: The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard. Who acts: sword, little boy, Boy. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 79

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The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard.

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**Who acts:** sword, little boy, Boy · **What happens:** belong, find, stick out, pull up, see, go · **To what, where:** sword, ground, garden, scabbard

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, little boy, Boy), 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:pg2435:6:79
# text = The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
14	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the sword |  |  |  |  | to the scabbard | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive | the little boy | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **stick out** | gerund | the little boy *not said here* | the ground |  | the garden |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ground=Theme in garden=Destination |
| 4 | **pull up** | past | Boy | sword |  |  | day |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | sword |  |  | the scabbard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into scabbard=Initial\_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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