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title: Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the engine. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 56

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Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the engine.

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**What happens:** set, work, prepare · **To what, where:** hundred carpenters, engine

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:43:56
# text = Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the engine.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | hundred carpenters and engineers |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive |  | the engine |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient |

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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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