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title: When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and ta… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and taken the money. Who acts: daughters. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 132

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When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and taken the money.

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**Who acts:** daughters · **What happens:** come, have, be, take · **To what, where:** spot, thief, money

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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:pg5615:16:132
# text = When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and taken the money.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | participle |  | a thief |  | there | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  | the money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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