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title: As soon as he had loosened the sledge, he had taken his favourite fi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he had loosened the sledge, he had taken his favourite fish from among the piles neatly arranged for sale, and had trotted off to the forest with it in his mouth. Who acts: snow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree a
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 63

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As soon as he had loosened the sledge, he had taken his favourite fish from among the piles neatly arranged for sale, and had trotted off to the forest with it in his mouth.

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**Who acts:** snow · **What happens:** loosen, take, arrange, trot off · **To what, where:** sledge, favourite fish, piles, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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:pg3282:26:63
# text = As soon as he had loosened the sledge, he had taken his favourite fish from among the piles neatly arranged for sale, and had trotted off to the forest with it in his mouth.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	trotted	trot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loosen** | past · perfect | snow | the sledge |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | snow | snow's favourite fish |  | the piles |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from pile=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **arrange** | participle |  | the piles *not said here* |  |  |  | for sale; neatly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sale=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **trot off** | past · perfect | snow *not said here* |  |  | snow's mouth |  | to the forest with sledge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination |

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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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