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title: At night he came back, and he had a still larger sack of money with… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At night he came back, and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought; it must have been at least six bushels, and he set it down on the bench. Who acts: bailiff, money. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 79

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At night he came back, and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought; it must have been at least six bushels, and he set it down on the bench.

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**Who acts:** bailiff, money · **What happens:** come back, have, bring, be, set down · **To what, where:** larger sack, attorney, six bushels, money, bench

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bailiff, money), 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:pg503:18:79
# text = At night he came back, and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought; it must have been at least six bushels, and he set it down on the bench.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	attorney	attorney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	nmod	_	_
30	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | bailiff |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | bailiff | a larger sack of money with attorney |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the attorney |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | must · perfect | money | six bushels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **set down** | past | bailiff | money |  | the bench |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bench=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 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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