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title: From another pocket hung a huge silver chain, with a wonderful kind… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From another pocket hung a huge silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine fastened to it, a globe half silver and half of some transparent metal; for on the transparent side we saw certain strange figures, and thought we could touch them till we found our fingers stopped by the shining substance
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 21

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From another pocket hung a huge silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine fastened to it, a globe half silver and half of some transparent metal; for on the transparent side we saw certain strange figures, and thought we could touch them till we found our fingers stopped by the shining substance.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** hang, fasten, see, think, touch, find · **To what, where:** huge silver chain, pocket, engine, certain strange figures, figures, fingers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:pg503:44:21
# text = From another pocket hung a huge silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine fastened to it, a globe half silver and half of some transparent metal; for on the transparent side we saw certain strange figures, and thought we could touch them till we found our fingers stopped by the shining substance.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	compound	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
44	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
51	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
53	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	57	amod	_	_
57	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past |  | a huge silver chain |  | another pocket |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |
| 2 | **fasten** | participle |  | engine *not said here* | pocket |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | we | certain strange figures |  |  |  | for the transparent side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **touch** | could | we | figures *= figure* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past | we | our fingers |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic |
| 7 | **stop** | participle |  | our fingers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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