--- title: Then he flew away, bought himself a new dressing-gown, and sat down… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he flew away, bought himself a new dressing-gown, and sat down in the wood and began to make up a story, for it had to be ready by Saturday, and that was no easy matter. Who acts: father, story, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, story, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:4:102 # text = Then he flew away, bought himself a new dressing-gown, and sat down in the wood and began to make up a story, for it had to be ready by Saturday, and that was no easy matter. 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 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 dressing dressing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 41 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly away** | past | father | | | | then | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **buy** | past | father *not said here* | father | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary gown=Theme | | 3 | **sit down** | past | father *not said here* | | | the wood | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | | 4 | **begin** | past | father *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **make up** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | a story | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot | | 6 | **have** | past | story | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | | | | saturday | ready *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | that | no easy matter | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/103/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/)