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title: There and then the chest was made, and, when it was ready, the jogi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There and then the chest was made, and, when it was ready, the jogi bade the king to bring the princess by night; and they two thrust the poor little maiden into the chest and fastened it down with long nails, and between them carried it to the river and pushed it out into the stream. Who acts: ches
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 77

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There and then the chest was made, and, when it was ready, the jogi bade the king to bring the princess by night; and they two thrust the poor little maiden into the chest and fastened it down with long nails, and between them carried it to the river and pushed it out into the stream.

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**Who acts:** chest, air · **What happens:** make, be, bring, thrust, fasten down, carry · **To what, where:** chest, princess, river, stream

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (chest, air), 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:pg3454:4:77
# text = There and then the chest was made, and, when it was ready, the jogi bade the king to bring the princess by night; and they two thrust the poor little maiden into the chest and fastened it down with long nails, and between them carried it to the river and pushed it out into the stream.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	jogi	jogi	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	between	between	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	_
50	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
59	into	into	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the chest |  | there | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | chest |  |  |  |  | the jogi bade *obl*; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | chest *not said here* |  | the princess |  | night |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 4 | **thrust** |  | air |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fasten down** | past | air *not said here* | chest |  |  |  | with long nails | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with nail=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **carry** | past |  | chest |  | the river |  | between air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to river=Destination |
| 7 | **push out** | past |  | chest |  | the stream |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into stream=Destination |

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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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