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title: However, when they came to the tree they found what I had done, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, when they came to the tree they found what I had done, and making further use of their hellish art, one of them was changed into a smith’s anvil and another into a piece of iron, of which the third soon made a hatchet. Who acts: shapes, I, making, third. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» b
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 78

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However, when they came to the tree they found what I had done, and making further use of their hellish art, one of them was changed into a smith’s anvil and another into a piece of iron, of which the third soon made a hatchet.

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**Who acts:** shapes, I, making, third · **What happens:** come, find, do, make, change, use · **To what, where:** tree, further use, anvil, hatchet, hellish art · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shapes, I, making, third), 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:pg540:8:78
# text = However, when they came to the tree they found what I had done, and making further use of their hellish art, one of them was changed into a smith’s anvil and another into a piece of iron, of which the third soon made a hatchet.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj:pass	_	_
18	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hellish	hellish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	48	nsubj	_	_
47	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
48	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | shapes *= shape* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | shapes *= shape* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | further use of shapes's hellish art |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 5 | **change** | past · passive | making |  |  |  |  | into a smith's anvil *result*; into a piece of iron | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into anvil=Result |
| 6 | **make** | past | the third | a hatchet |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hatchet=Product |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | shapes's hellish art |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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