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title: Then he rolled up the thread and put it carefully into his pocket, b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he rolled up the thread and put it carefully into his pocket, breathing silent thanks to the fairy. Who acts: thread. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 92

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Then he rolled up the thread and put it carefully into his pocket, breathing silent thanks to the fairy.

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**Who acts:** thread · **What happens:** roll up, put, breathe · **To what, where:** thread, jerk, pocket, silent thanks

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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:pg5615:30:92
# text = Then he rolled up the thread and put it carefully into his pocket, breathing silent thanks to the fairy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | past | thread | the thread |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | thread *not said here* | jerk |  | thread's pocket |  | carefully *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 3 | **breathe** | gerund | thread *not said here* | silent thanks |  |  |  | to the fairy | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=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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