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title: When the bag was full Ciccu put it on his shoulder and stole into th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the bag was full Ciccu put it on his shoulder and stole into the house of the Man-eater (who had gone to look for his dinner) and let them all out in his bedroom. Who acts: bag, Ciccu, Man eater. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependen
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 31

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When the bag was full Ciccu put it on his shoulder and stole into the house of the Man-eater (who had gone to look for his dinner) and let them all out in his bedroom.

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**Who acts:** bag, Ciccu, Man eater · **What happens:** be, put, steal, go, look, let out · **To what, where:** bag, shoulder, house, friends, bedroom

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bag, Ciccu, Man eater), 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:pg5615:38:31
# text = When the bag was full Ciccu put it on his shoulder and stole into the house of the Man-eater (who had gone to look for his dinner) and let them all out in his bedroom.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bag |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | past | Ciccu | bag |  | Ciccu's shoulder |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **steal** | past | Ciccu *not said here* |  |  | the house of the Man eater |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | the Man eater |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Man eater *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Ciccu's dinner | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dinner=Theme |
| 6 | **let out** | infinitive | the bag *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  | Ciccu's bedroom |  | out *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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