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title: When everything was put in and there was not yet enough, he said, ‘I… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When everything was put in and there was not yet enough, he said, ‘I will make an end of this; it is easy to fasten a sack when it is not full.’ Who acts: man, I, sack. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 71

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When everything was put in and there was not yet enough, he said, ‘I will make an end of this; it is easy to fasten a sack when it is not full.’

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**Who acts:** man, I, sack · **What happens:** put in, not be, say, make, be, fasten · **To what, where:** everything, end, sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, I, sack), 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:pg640:19:71
# text = When everything was put in and there was not yet enough, he said, ‘I will make an end of this; it is easy to fasten a sack when it is not full.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	expl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	36	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put in** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **be** | past |  |  |  | there | yet | enough *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | future | I | a end of this |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fasten** | to-infinitive |  | a sack |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | sack |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

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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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