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title: Halvor took a draught, and in a moment he was able to swing the swor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Halvor took a draught, and in a moment he was able to swing the sword about with perfect ease. Who acts: Halvor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 25

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Halvor took a draught, and in a moment he was able to swing the sword about with perfect ease.

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**Who acts:** Halvor · **What happens:** take, be, swing · **To what, where:** draught, sword

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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:pg540:6:25
# text = Halvor took a draught, and in a moment he was able to swing the sword about with perfect ease.
1	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Halvor | a draught |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Halvor |  |  |  | moment | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swing** | to-infinitive | Halvor *not said here* | the sword |  |  |  | about perfect ease | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme about ease=Location |

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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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