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title: He then took the trees and tossed them over the barn into the yard,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He then took the trees and tossed them over the barn into the yard, and the cart after them, so that every wheel flew off in a different direction. Who acts: squire, wheel. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 9

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He then took the trees and tossed them over the barn into the yard, and the cart after them, so that every wheel flew off in a different direction.

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**Who acts:** squire, wheel · **What happens:** take, toss, fly off · **To what, where:** trees, barn, different direction

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, wheel), 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:pg5615:13:9
# text = He then took the trees and tossed them over the barn into the yard, and the cart after them, so that every wheel flew off in a different direction.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | squire | the trees |  |  | then | the cart after trees *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 2 | **toss** | past | squire *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  | the barn |  | into the yard | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into yard=Recipient |
| 3 | **fly off** | past | every wheel |  |  | a different direction |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=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 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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