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title: One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunc… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunchback, another lame or club-footed or blind, and most of them shall be ugly and covered with scars. Who acts: third, most. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 100

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One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunchback, another lame or club-footed or blind, and most of them shall be ugly and covered with scars.

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**Who acts:** third, most · **What happens:** lose, be, cover · **To what, where:** One, hunchback

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, most), 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:pg503:2:100
# text = One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunchback, another lame or club-footed or blind, and most of them shall be ugly and covered with scars.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	lame	lame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | shall · perfect · passive |  | One |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | the third | a hunchback |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | most of lame |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | participle | most of lame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with scars | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scar=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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