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title: He had long ago found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had long ago found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so he laid his plans accordingly. Who acts: hare. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 105

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He had long ago found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so he laid his plans accordingly.

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**Who acts:** hare · **What happens:** have, find out, take in, lay, plan · **To what, where:** Big, plans

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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:pg5615:35:105
# text = He had long ago found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so he laid his plans accordingly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | hare |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** | participle | hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ago, long *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take in** | past · passive |  | Big |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **lay** | past | hare | hare's plans |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 5 | **plan** |  | hare |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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