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description: These gentlemen, having pen, ink, and paper about them, made an exact list of everything they saw, which I afterward translated into English, and which ran as follows: Who acts: gentlemen, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 13

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These gentlemen, having pen, ink, and paper about them, made an exact list of everything they saw, which I afterward translated into English, and which ran as follows:

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**Who acts:** gentlemen, I · **What happens:** have, make, see, translate, run, follow · **To what, where:** pen, exact list, English, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, I), 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:pg503:44:13
# text = These gentlemen, having pen, ink, and paper about them, made an exact list of everything they saw, which I afterward translated into English, and which ran as follows:
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | this gentlemen and paper about pen *not said here* | pen and ink |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | this gentlemen and paper about pen | a exact list of everything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Product |
| 3 | **see** | past | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **translate** | past | I |  |  |  |  | into English *result*; afterward *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent which=Patient into english=Result |
| 5 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **list** |  |  | everything |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=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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