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title: Now that by his cunning he had obtained possession of the three magi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that by his cunning he had obtained possession of the three magic objects, he resolved to return to his native place. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 61

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Now that by his cunning he had obtained possession of the three magic objects, he resolved to return to his native place.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** obtain, resolve, return, possess · **To what, where:** possession, three magic objects

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg3027:20:61
# text = Now that by his cunning he had obtained possession of the three magic objects, he resolved to return to his native place.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past · perfect | man | possession of the three magic objects |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | man |  |  |  | now | by man's cunning | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to man's native place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 4 | **possess** |  |  | the three magic objects |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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 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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