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title: Then they all returned to their cave in the forest, delighted with t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all returned to their cave in the forest, delighted with their new purchase, and longing for a chance of trying its powers. Who acts: robbers, chance. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 81

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Then they all returned to their cave in the forest, delighted with their new purchase, and longing for a chance of trying its powers.

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**Who acts:** robbers, chance · **What happens:** return, long, try, purchase · **To what, where:** powers

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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 (robbers, chance), 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:pg5615:17:81
# text = Then they all returned to their cave in the forest, delighted with their new purchase, and longing for a chance of trying its powers.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | then | to robbers's cave in the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result |
| 2 | **long** | gerund | robbers *= robber* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a chance | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for chance=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | a chance *not said here* | chance's powers |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 4 | **purchase** |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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