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title: Mark counted out the money, wrapped the baby up in a fox skin, laid… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mark counted out the money, wrapped the baby up in a fox skin, laid it in the sledge beside him, and drove back towards home. Who acts: Mark. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 27

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Mark counted out the money, wrapped the baby up in a fox skin, laid it in the sledge beside him, and drove back towards home.

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**Who acts:** Mark · **What happens:** count out, wrap up, lay, drive back · **To what, where:** money, baby, fox skin, sledge, home

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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:pg641:4:27
# text = Mark counted out the money, wrapped the baby up in a fox skin, laid it in the sledge beside him, and drove back towards home.
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count out** | past | Mark | the money |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap up** | past | Mark *not said here* | the baby |  | a fox skin |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in skin=Destination |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Mark *not said here* | baby |  | the sledge |  | beside Mark | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sledge=Destination |
| 4 | **drive back** | past |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards home=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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