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title: The first thing the wizard now did was to lead the horse away to a s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first thing the wizard now did was to lead the horse away to a smith to get a red-hot nail driven into its mouth, because after that it could not change its shape again. Who acts: wizard, first thing, thing. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with i
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 37

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The first thing the wizard now did was to lead the horse away to a smith to get a red-hot nail driven into its mouth, because after that it could not change its shape again.

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**Who acts:** wizard, first thing, thing · **What happens:** do, be, get, drive, not change · **To what, where:** first thing, red hot nail, mouth, shape

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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 (wizard, first thing, thing), 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:pg5615:24:37
# text = The first thing the wizard now did was to lead the horse away to a smith to get a red-hot nail driven into its mouth, because after that it could not change its shape again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the wizard | the first thing *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the first thing |  |  |  |  | away, lead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the first thing *not said here* | a red hot nail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drive** | participle |  | a red hot nail *not said here* |  | thing's mouth |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into mouth=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **change** | could | thing | thing's shape |  |  | again |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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