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title: This made Chil-maq drop him and try to pick up his club; but when he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This made Chil-maq drop him and try to pick up his club; but when he stooped the mighty sword shore him through at the waist. Who acts: This, Chil maq, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 39

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This made Chil-maq drop him and try to pick up his club; but when he stooped the mighty sword shore him through at the waist.

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**Who acts:** This, Chil maq, prince · **What happens:** make, drop, try, pick up, stoop · **To what, where:** prince, club, mighty sword shore, waist

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Chil maq, prince), 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:pg3282:4:39
# text = This made Chil-maq drop him and try to pick up his club; but when he stooped the mighty sword shore him through at the waist.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Chil	Chil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	maq	maq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | present | Chil maq | prince |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | Chil maq *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Chil maq *not said here* | prince's club |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Topic |
| 5 | **stoop** | past | prince | the mighty sword shore |  | the waist |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shore=Theme |

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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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