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title: Thirdly, there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made; this… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thirdly, there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made; this is most useful, and the man who wears it would not bend under seven camels’ loads. Who acts: dagger, sage, this, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 96

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Thirdly, there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made; this is most useful, and the man who wears it would not bend under seven camels’ loads.

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**Who acts:** dagger, sage, this, man · **What happens:** be, make, wear, not bend · **To what, where:** dagger, loads

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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 (dagger, sage, this, 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:pg3282:3:96
# text = Thirdly, there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made; this is most useful, and the man who wears it would not bend under seven camels’ loads.
1	Thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Timus	Timus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the dagger |  |  | there |  | thirdly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the sage | the dagger |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | present | the man | dagger |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **bend** | would | the man |  |  | seven camels's loads |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=Location |

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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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