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title: So he wrapped her round in his cloak and wished themselves to the gr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he wrapped her round in his cloak and wished themselves to the granite mountain, and in an instant there they were, sitting on it! Who acts: Hunter, birds. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 48

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So he wrapped her round in his cloak and wished themselves to the granite mountain, and in an instant there they were, sitting on it!

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**Who acts:** Hunter, birds · **What happens:** wrap, wish, sit · **To what, where:** love, cloak, birds, instant

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, birds), 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:pg640:10:48
# text = So he wrapped her round in his cloak and wished themselves to the granite mountain, and in an instant there they were, sitting on it!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | Hunter | love |  | Hunter's cloak |  | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cloak=Destination |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Hunter *not said here* | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | to the granite mountain | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | birds *= bird* |  |  | a instant |  | on instant | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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