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title: When the weavers found that there were seven of them they were overc… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the weavers found that there were seven of them they were overcome with gratitude to one whom they took for a magician as he could thus make seven out of an obvious six. Who acts: weavers, plans, Weaver. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 72

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When the weavers found that there were seven of them they were overcome with gratitude to one whom they took for a magician as he could thus make seven out of an obvious six.

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**Who acts:** weavers, plans, Weaver · **What happens:** find, be, overcome, take, make · **To what, where:** seven, plans, one, obvious six · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weavers, plans, Weaver), 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:pg3027:13:72
# text = When the weavers found that there were seven of them they were overcome with gratitude to one whom they took for a magician as he could thus make seven out of an obvious six.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the weavers | seven of plans |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent seven=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **overcome** | past · passive |  | plans *= plan* | one |  |  | with gratitude | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  | for a magician | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent whom=Theme for magician=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **make** | could | Weaver | seven |  | a obvious six |  | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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