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title: However, while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle to persons of quality and others; and before I began my second voyage I sold them for 600_l_. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 26

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However, while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle to persons of quality and others; and before I began my second voyage I sold them for 600\_l\_.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** make, show, begin, sell, voyage · **To what, where:** great profit, England, cattle, persons, second voyage

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg503:47:26
# text = However, while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle to persons of quality and others; and before I began my second voyage I sold them for 600_l_.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | great profit |  | England |  | however *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Product |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | I *not said here* | my cattle | persons of quality and others |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cattle=Topic to person=Recipient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | I | my second voyage |  |  |  | l *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sell** | past | I | cattle |  |  |  | for 600 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for 600=Asset |
| 5 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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