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description: Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings. Who acts: Thakane, two sheepskins. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 76

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Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.

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**Who acts:** Thakane, two sheepskins · **What happens:** go, bring, stain, send, forge · **To what, where:** two sheepskins, red, iron rings

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, two sheepskins), 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:pg3282:15:76
# text = Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	sheepskins	sheepskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stained	stain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	forge	forge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Thakane |  |  |  |  | instead, outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | participle | Thakane *not said here* |  |  | two sheepskins |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stain** | past | two sheepskins |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | participle · passive |  | red |  |  |  | for a blacksmith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **forge** | to-infinitive |  | some iron rings |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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