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title: Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and p… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and pushed away, and after grinning at the four men, says he to them. Who acts: Seven Inches, silver chain. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 87

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Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and pushed away, and after grinning at the four men, says he to them.

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**Who acts:** Seven Inches, silver chain · **What happens:** loosen, fasten, push away, grin, say · **To what, where:** silver chain, boat, strength, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven Inches, silver chain), 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:pg3454:10:87
# text = Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and pushed away, and after grinning at the four men, says he to them.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loosen** | past | Seven Inches | the silver chain |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | the silver chain | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 3 | **push away** | participle | Seven Inches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the four men | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Seven Inches *not said here* | strength | man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to they=Recipient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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