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title: The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robbe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with. Who acts: back, robber, sister. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its de
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 39

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The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with.

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**Who acts:** back, robber, sister · **What happens:** go back, tell, take, bind · **To what, where:** sister, stouter cord, thumbs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, robber, sister), 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:pg641:5:39
# text = The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	stouter	stout	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | back |  |  |  | day | to the wood with back's beasts *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the robber |  | sister |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | must | sister | a stouter cord |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme |
| 4 | **bind** | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | back's thumbs |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=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 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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