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title: Then the clockmaker came, and, after a great deal of talking and exa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 139

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Then the clockmaker came, and, after a great deal of talking and examining, he put the bird somewhat in order, but he said that it must be very seldom used as the works were nearly worn out, and it was impossible to put in new ones.

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**Who acts:** clockmaker, great deal · **What happens:** come, talk, examine, put, say, use · **To what, where:** bird, order, works · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clockmaker, great deal), 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:pg640:48:139
# text = Then the clockmaker came, and, after a great deal of talking and examining, he put the bird somewhat in order, but he said that it must be very seldom used as the works were nearly worn out, and it was impossible to put in new ones.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clockmaker	clockmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	ccomp	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	csubj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the clockmaker |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | a great deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **examine** | gerund | a great deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | past | clockmaker | the bird |  | order |  | somewhat *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in order=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | clockmaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **use** | must · passive |  | order |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | the works |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 8 | **is** | past | the clockmaker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **put** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in new ones | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination |

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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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