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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 55

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When the tree came to itself again it was packed in a yard with other trees, and a man was saying, ‘This is a splendid one, we shall only want this.’

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**Who acts:** tree, man, This, we · **What happens:** come, pack, say, be, want · **To what, where:** parting, splendid one, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, man, This, we), 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:pg5615:11:55
# text = When the tree came to itself again it was packed in a yard with other trees, and a man was saying, ‘This is a splendid one, we shall only want this.’
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
35	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the tree |  | parting |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to itself=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pack** | past · passive |  | parting |  |  |  | in a yard with other trees | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in yard=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | This | a splendid one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **want** | shall | we | this |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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