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title: Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the coast, and taking off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leather jacket about half an hour before high water. Who acts: I, stockings. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dep
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 8

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Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the coast, and taking off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leather jacket about half an hour before high water.

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**Who acts:** I, stockings · **What happens:** have, fix, go back, take off, walk · **To what, where:** fifty hooks, coat, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stockings), 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:pg503:46:8
# text = Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the coast, and taking off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leather jacket about half an hour before high water.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	40	det:predet	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | participle | I *not said here* | fifty hooks |  |  |  | to many cables; thus *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient to cable=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **go back** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the coast *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to coast=Result |
| 4 | **take off** | gerund | I *not said here* | my coat and shoes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | past | stockings |  |  |  | before high water; hour | into the sea *result*; in my leather jacket | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result |

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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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