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title: He tried to escape, but the magician sent for her goldsmith, who, co… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He tried to escape, but the magician sent for her goldsmith, who, coming, overlaid the deer-horns with gold and jewels. Who acts: prince, magician, goldsmith. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 35

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He tried to escape, but the magician sent for her goldsmith, who, coming, overlaid the deer-horns with gold and jewels.

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**Who acts:** prince, magician, goldsmith · **What happens:** try, escape, send, come, overlay · **To what, where:** deer horns

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, magician, goldsmith), 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:pg3282:3:35
# text = He tried to escape, but the magician sent for her goldsmith, who, coming, overlaid the deer-horns with gold and jewels.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | the magician |  |  |  |  | for magician's goldsmith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | magician's goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **overlay** | participle | magician's goldsmith *not said here* | the deer horns and jewels |  |  |  | with gold | tree rules |

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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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