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title: And the wind said yes, and that all that day he had been blowing bac… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wind said yes, and that all that day he had been blowing backwards and forwards over it without being able to move one single tile. Who acts: wind, man. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 67

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And the wind said yes, and that all that day he had been blowing backwards and forwards over it without being able to move one single tile.

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**Who acts:** wind, man · **What happens:** say, blow, be, move · **To what, where:** gold, one single tile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, man), 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:pg7277:20:67
# text = And the wind said yes, and that all that day he had been blowing backwards and forwards over it without being able to move one single tile.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 2 | **blow** | past · perfect · progressive | man |  |  | gold | day | backwards *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | one single tile |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tile=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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