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title: And when he had it safe he made her stoop down and smear it over his… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had it safe he made her stoop down and smear it over his brother’s face, taking care all the while never to loose her hair, and when the dead man opened his eyes the youth drew his sword and cut off her head with a single blow. Who acts: man, power, dead man, youth. A sentence of «The Pi
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 102

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And when he had it safe he made her stoop down and smear it over his brother’s face, taking care all the while never to loose her hair, and when the dead man opened his eyes the youth drew his sword and cut off her head with a single blow.

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**Who acts:** man, power, dead man, youth · **What happens:** have, make, stoop down, smear over, take, not lose · **To what, where:** length, power, care, hair, eyes, sword

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, power, dead man, youth), 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:pg5615:23:102
# text = And when he had it safe he made her stoop down and smear it over his brother’s face, taking care all the while never to loose her hair, and when the dead man opened his eyes the youth drew his sword and cut off her head with a single blow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	stoop	stoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smear	smear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | man | length |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | man | power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stoop down** | infinitive | power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **smear over** | infinitive | power *not said here* | length |  |  |  | man's brother's face *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | man *not said here* | care |  |  | while |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | power's hair |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality |
| 7 | **open** | past | the dead man | man's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 8 | **draw** | past | the youth | man's sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 9 | **cut off** | participle | the youth *not said here* | power's head |  |  |  | with a single blow | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |

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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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