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title: And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the qua… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the quarrel was fiercest the bronze ring fell into the sea. Who acts: words, alas. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 211

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And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the quarrel was fiercest the bronze ring fell into the sea.

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**Who acts:** words, alas · **What happens:** come, be, fall · **To what, where:** high words, sea

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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 (words, alas), 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:pg503:2:211
# text = And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the quarrel was fiercest the bronze ring fell into the sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	fiercest	fierce	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | words *= word* |  |  | high words |  | to blows; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location to blow=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fierce *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past | alas |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |

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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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