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title: So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork rou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork round, and worked with the handle, and in the twinkling of an eye the stable was as clean as if it had been scoured. Who acts: giant, stable. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its depende
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 34

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So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork round, and worked with the handle, and in the twinkling of an eye the stable was as clean as if it had been scoured.

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**Who acts:** giant, stable · **What happens:** do, teach, turn, work, be, scour · **To what, where:** Princess, giant, pitchfork, twinkling, stable

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, stable), 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:pg503:17:34
# text = So he did what the Princess had taught him, turned the pitchfork round, and worked with the handle, and in the twinkling of an eye the stable was as clean as if it had been scoured.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Princess | giant |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | giant *not said here* | the pitchfork |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitchfork=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | past | giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the handle | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with handle=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the stable |  |  | the twinkling of a eye |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **scour** | past · perfect · passive |  | stable |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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