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title: When he had regained the upper air he started for his old home, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had regained the upper air he started for his old home, and having found his mother still living in the old house where he had left her, they settled down together very happily. Who acts: Martin, mother, stones. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its d
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 76

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When he had regained the upper air he started for his old home, and having found his mother still living in the old house where he had left her, they settled down together very happily.

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**Who acts:** Martin, mother, stones · **What happens:** regain, start, have, find, live, leave · **To what, where:** upper air, mother, old house

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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, mother, stones), 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:pg640:33:76
# text = When he had regained the upper air he started for his old home, and having found his mother still living in the old house where he had left her, they settled down together very happily.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	regained	regain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | past · perfect | Martin | the upper air |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | Martin | the upper air *not said here* |  |  |  | for Martin's old home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past |  | Martin's mother |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | Martin's mother *not said here* |  |  | the old house | still |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 6 | **leave** | past · perfect | Martin | mother |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 7 | **settle down** | past | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | down, happily, together *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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