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description: So he changed himself to a horse, such a fine horse, too, that his father got a high price for it at the market; but after the bargain was made, and the money paid, the boy changed again to his own shape, when no one was looking, and went home. Who acts: boy, father, money, one. A sentence of «The P
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31

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So he changed himself to a horse, such a fine horse, too, that his father got a high price for it at the market; but after the bargain was made, and the money paid, the boy changed again to his own shape, when no one was looking, and went home.

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**Who acts:** boy, father, money, one · **What happens:** change, get, make, pay, look, go · **To what, where:** boy, high price, market, money

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, father, money, one), 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:pg5615:24:31
# text = So he changed himself to a horse, such a fine horse, too, that his father got a high price for it at the market; but after the bargain was made, and the money paid, the boy changed again to his own shape, when no one was looking, and went home.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	54	mark	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
58	home	home	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | boy | boy |  |  |  | to a horse; such fine horse *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | boy's father | a high price |  | the market |  | for price | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent price=Theme for it=Source |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | after the bargain |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 4 | **pay** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **change** | past | the money |  |  |  | again | to boy's own shape *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to shape=Result |
| 6 | **look** | past · progressive | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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