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title: Out crept the young man from under the bed, and the girl took the ma… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out crept the young man from under the bed, and the girl took the magic wand (which she found where the old man had told her), and, touching the twelve grey stones, transformed them at once into the six brothers and their brides. Who acts: girl, magic wand, touching. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Bo
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 104

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Out crept the young man from under the bed, and the girl took the magic wand (which she found where the old man had told her), and, touching the twelve grey stones, transformed them at once into the six brothers and their brides.

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**Who acts:** girl, magic wand, touching · **What happens:** creep, take, find, tell, touch, transform · **To what, where:** young man, bed, magic wand, old man, girl, twelve grey stones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, magic wand, touching), 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:pg5615:22:104
# text = Out crept the young man from under the bed, and the girl took the magic wand (which she found where the old man had told her), and, touching the twelve grey stones, transformed them at once into the six brothers and their brides.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	csubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
36	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	39	obl	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past |  | the young man |  | the bed |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location man=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the girl | the magic wand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | the magic wand |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the old man | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic |
| 5 | **touch** | gerund |  | the twelve grey stones |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **transform** | past | touching | stones *= stone* |  |  |  | into the six brothers and stones's brides *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into brother=Result |

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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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