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title: But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke, and, though they made one, two, and three to put in its place, that did not help them, for each broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they used to make them of. Who acts: br
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 2

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But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke, and, though they made one, two, and three to put in its place, that did not help them, for each broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they used to make them of.

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**Who acts:** brother, three, that · **What happens:** seat, be, drive off, break, make, put · **To what, where:** brother, coach, palace, one, place, kind

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, three, that), 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:pg503:19:2
# text = But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke, and, though they made one, two, and three to put in its place, that did not help them, for each broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they used to make them of.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
25	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nsubj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	broke	broke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	parataxis	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
58	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	59	det	_	_
59	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
62	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
64	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
65	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	xcomp	_	_
66	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · perfect · passive |  | brother |  | the coach |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from palace=Trajectory |
| 4 | **break** | past |  | one |  |  |  | of the trace pins | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of pin=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | brother | one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | three |  |  | coach's place |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **help** | past · do-support | that | brother |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **use** | past | brother | what kind of wood |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kind=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **make** | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* | brother |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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