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title: Martin examined the contents of the sacks, and seeing that one was f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Martin examined the contents of the sacks, and seeing that one was full of silver and the other of sand, he said to himself: Who acts: Martin, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 46

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Martin examined the contents of the sacks, and seeing that one was full of silver and the other of sand, he said to himself:

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**Who acts:** Martin, one · **What happens:** examine, see, be, say · **To what, where:** contents, Martin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, one), 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:pg640:33:46
# text = Martin examined the contents of the sacks, and seeing that one was full of silver and the other of sand, he said to himself:
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | Martin | the contents of the sacks |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | one |  |  |  |  | of silver; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of sand | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Martin |  | Martin |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |

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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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