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title: It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels. Who acts: engine, frame. 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 57

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It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels.

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**Who acts:** engine, frame · **What happens:** be, raise, move · **To what, where:** frame, three inches, ground, two wheels

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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: who acts (engine, frame), 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:pg503:43:57
# text = It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | engine | a frame |  |  |  | of wood | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | participle | a frame *not said here* | three inches |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inch=Theme from ground=Destination |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | a frame *not said here* |  |  | two wheels |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon wheel=Trajectory |

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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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