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title: Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-whe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them. Who acts: leg. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 66

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Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them.

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**Who acts:** leg · **What happens:** reach, cut, get, roll · **To what, where:** three cutting swords, plough wheel

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg), 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:pg640:8:66
# text = Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | leg | the three cutting swords |  |  | then |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | past | leg *not said here* |  |  | leg's plough wheel |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on wheel=Source |
| 4 | **roll** | past | leg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over swords *= sword* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory |

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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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