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title: At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form. Who acts: Hunter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 72

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At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.

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**Who acts:** Hunter · **What happens:** get, swallow, feel, regain, hold, form · **To what, where:** hold, last, change, human form, kind

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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), 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:pg640:10:72
# text = At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	regained	regain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Hunter | hold of another kind of cabbage |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hold=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **swallow** | past · perfect | Hunter *not said here* | hold |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Hunter | another change |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 4 | **regain** | past | Hunter | Hunter's human form |  |  |  | once *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | another kind of cabbage |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **form** |  | Hunter |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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 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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