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title: However, the wizard kept on offering her more and more for it, until… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the wizard kept on offering her more and more for it, until at last the gold ring grew frightened, and changed itself into a grain of barley, which fell on the ground. Who acts: wizard, gold ring, barley. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 42

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However, the wizard kept on offering her more and more for it, until at last the gold ring grew frightened, and changed itself into a grain of barley, which fell on the ground.

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**Who acts:** wizard, gold ring, barley · **What happens:** keep, offer, grow, frighten, change, fall · **To what, where:** girl, ring, grain, ground

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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, gold ring, barley), 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:pg5615:24:42
# text = However, the wizard kept on offering her more and more for it, until at last the gold ring grew frightened, and changed itself into a grain of barley, which fell on the ground.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | participle | the wizard |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | the wizard *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | for ring | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme for it=Goal |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the gold ring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **frighten** | participle | the gold ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **change** | past | the wizard *not said here* | ring |  |  |  | into a grain of barley *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into grain=Result |
| 6 | **fall** | past | barley |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

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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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