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title: His first thought was to put back the terrible box and fly from the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His first thought was to put back the terrible box and fly from the turret; but a voice in his ear said, ‘This hand belonged to one whom you can help and restore. Who acts: first thought, voice, hand, prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its depe
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 58

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His first thought was to put back the terrible box and fly from the turret; but a voice in his ear said, ‘This hand belonged to one whom you can help and restore.

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**Who acts:** first thought, voice, hand, prince · **What happens:** be, fly, say, ‘, belong, help · **To what, where:** turret, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thought, voice, hand, prince), 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:pg540:34:58
# text = His first thought was to put back the terrible box and fly from the turret; but a voice in his ear said, ‘This hand belonged to one whom you can help and restore.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	‘	‘	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | prince's first thought |  |  |  |  | put *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | prince's first thought *not said here* |  |  | the turret |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from turret=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a voice in prince's ear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **‘** | infinitive | a voice in prince's ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **belong** | past | this hand | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **restore** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **think** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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