--- title: Then he took it off, and they each kissed him and wished him good fo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he took it off, and they each kissed him and wished him good fortune, and then they began again their eternal dance round the golden tree, for it is their business to guard it till the new times come, or till the world’s ending. Who acts: boy, Fairies, Sword, new times. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Fairies, Sword, new times), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:27:78 # text = Then he took it off, and they each kissed him and wished him good fortune, and then they began again their eternal dance round the golden tree, for it is their business to guard it till the new times come, or till the world’s ending. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 10 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eternal eternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 46 till till ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’s 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | boy | Sword | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **kiss** | past | Fairies *= fairy* | boy | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **wish** | past | boy *not said here* | boy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** | past | Fairies *= fairy* | Fairies's eternal dance | | | then; again | round the golden tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | Sword | | | | | for Fairies's business | tree rules | | 6 | **guard** | to-infinitive | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | Sword | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | | 7 | **come** | present | the new times | | | | till the world's ending | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **dance** | | Fairies *= fairy* | | | | | | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **end** | | the world | | | | | | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/79/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)