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title: At this the marksman seized his gun, took aim, and fired in the dire… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the marksman seized his gun, took aim, and fired in the direction of the world’s end, in order to awaken the sluggard. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 95

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At this the marksman seized his gun, took aim, and fired in the direction of the world’s end, in order to awaken the sluggard.

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**What happens:** seize, take, fire, awaken · **To what, where:** gun, marksman, aim, direction, sluggard

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:35:95
# text = At this the marksman seized his gun, took aim, and fired in the direction of the world’s end, in order to awaken the sluggard.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marksman	marksman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	awaken	awaken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past |  | sort's gun |  | this marksman |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 3 | **fire** | participle |  |  |  | the direction of the world's end |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination |
| 4 | **awaken** | to-infinitive |  | the sluggard |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sluggard=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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