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title: The smith then had to collect all the iron he had, and Hans held it… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The smith then had to collect all the iron he had, and Hans held it while his father forged for him a staff, which was heavier than the anvil. Who acts: smith, Hans, father, staff. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45

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The smith then had to collect all the iron he had, and Hans held it while his father forged for him a staff, which was heavier than the anvil.

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**Who acts:** smith, Hans, father, staff · **What happens:** have, collect, hold, forge, be · **To what, where:** iron, staff

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, Hans, father, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:1308`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:12:45
# text = The smith then had to collect all the iron he had, and Hans held it while his father forged for him a staff, which was heavier than the anvil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the smith |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive | the smith *not said here* | all iron |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | smith | all iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** | past | Hans | staff |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **forge** | past | smith's father | a staff |  |  |  | for smith | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent staff=Product for he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is** | past | a staff |  |  |  |  | than the anvil; heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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