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title: When Peter had gone on for a bit with his captives, they met a chimn… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Peter had gone on for a bit with his captives, they met a chimney sweep, who laughed loudly over the extraordinary troop, and asked the girl what she was doing. Who acts: Peter, captives, chimney sweep, girl. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependen
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 32

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When Peter had gone on for a bit with his captives, they met a chimney sweep, who laughed loudly over the extraordinary troop, and asked the girl what she was doing.

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**Who acts:** Peter, captives, chimney sweep, girl · **What happens:** go on, meet, laugh, ask, do · **To what, where:** chimney sweep, extraordinary troop, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, captives, chimney sweep, girl), 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:pg7277:23:32
# text = When Peter had gone on for a bit with his captives, they met a chimney sweep, who laughed loudly over the extraordinary troop, and asked the girl what she was doing.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	obj	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · perfect | Peter |  |  |  |  | for a bit with Peter's captives | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | captives *= captive* | a chimney sweep |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | a chimney sweep |  |  | the extraordinary troop |  | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | captives *= captive* *not said here* |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** | past · progressive | girl | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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