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title: On my way here I was plundered at the Castle of Clashing Swords, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On my way here I was plundered at the Castle of Clashing Swords, and I saved this one thing only, hidden in my bathing-cloth.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 3

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On my way here I was plundered at the Castle of Clashing Swords, and I saved this one thing only, hidden in my bathing-cloth.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** plunder, clash, save, hide · **To what, where:** I, way, one thing, bathing cloth

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3282:5:3
# text = On my way here I was plundered at the Castle of Clashing Swords, and I saved this one thing only, hidden in my bathing-cloth.”
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Clashing	clash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	Swords	Sword	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunder** | past · passive |  | I |  | my way |  | at the Castle of Clashing Swords | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **clash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | past | I | this one thing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | my bathing cloth |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloth=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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