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title: So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and splendid apartments, only the one room where the picture was he did not open. Who acts: Trusty, king, picture. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 13

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So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and splendid apartments, only the one room where the picture was he did not open.

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**Who acts:** Trusty, king, picture · **What happens:** take, let, see, not be · **To what, where:** king, everything, riches

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty, king, picture), 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:pg503:41:13
# text = So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and splendid apartments, only the one room where the picture was he did not open.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	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	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | Trusty |  | king | everything |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | king *not said here* | all riches and splendid apartments |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | the picture |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |

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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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