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title: So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man an… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man and reached down from the shelf a sharp knife with which to kill him. Who acts: following morning, sharp knife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 1

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So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man and reached down from the shelf a sharp knife with which to kill him.

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**Who acts:** following morning, sharp knife · **What happens:** follow, take, reach down, kill, hold · **To what, where:** hold, sharp knife, shelf, man, young man

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following morning, sharp knife), 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:pg5615:2:1
# text = So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man and reached down from the shelf a sharp knife with which to kill him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragoness	dragoness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the following morning | hold of the young man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 3 | **reach down** | past | the following morning *not said here* | a sharp knife |  | the shelf |  | down *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from shelf=Source |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | a sharp knife | man |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the young man |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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