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description: Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead. Who acts: you, gun. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 8

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Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead.

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**Who acts:** you, gun · **What happens:** take, let, hit, drop down · **To what, where:** aim, cloak fall, one

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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 (you, gun), 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:pg640:10:8
# text = Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | aim |  |  | then | with your gun and shoot in the middle of gun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | future | gun | the cloak fall |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | future · passive |  | one of the birds |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **drop down** | future |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 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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