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title: The manikin took the ring, and whir! round went the spinning-wheel a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The manikin took the ring, and whir! round went the spinning-wheel again, and when morning broke he had spun all the straw into glittering gold. Who acts: manikin, ring. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 208

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The manikin took the ring, and whir! round went the spinning-wheel again, and when morning broke he had spun all the straw into glittering gold.

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**Who acts:** manikin, ring · **What happens:** take, go, break, spin, glitter · **To what, where:** ring, spinning wheel, straw, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manikin, ring), 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:pg503:13:208
# text = The manikin took the ring, and whir! round went the spinning-wheel again, and when morning broke he had spun all the straw into glittering gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the manikin | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the manikin *not said here* | the spinning wheel |  |  | again | whir *vocative*; round *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past | the manikin *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **spin** | past · perfect | ring | all straw |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | ring *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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