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title: At length, when all the band had been tricked, they held a council,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, when all the band had been tricked, they held a council, and resolved to march to the shoemaker’s house and punish him well for his cunning. Who acts: others. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 57

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At length, when all the band had been tricked, they held a council, and resolved to march to the shoemaker’s house and punish him well for his cunning.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** trick, hold, resolve, march, punish · **To what, where:** band, council, length, donkey

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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:pg5615:17:57
# text = At length, when all the band had been tricked, they held a council, and resolved to march to the shoemaker’s house and punish him well for his cunning.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past · perfect · passive |  | all band |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | past | others *= other* | a council |  | length |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent council=Theme at length=Location |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **march** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the shoemaker's house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
| 5 | **punish** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | donkey |  |  |  | for donkey's cunning; well *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cunning=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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