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title: Peter took her words to heart, and left his father’s house early one… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter took her words to heart, and left his father’s house early one morning to try his fortune in the wide world, as the old woman had advised him. Who acts: Peter, woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 8

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Peter took her words to heart, and left his father’s house early one morning to try his fortune in the wide world, as the old woman had advised him.

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**Who acts:** Peter, woman · **What happens:** take, leave, try, advise, word · **To what, where:** words, house, fortune, wide world, old woman

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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, woman), 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:pg7277:23:8
# text = Peter took her words to heart, and left his father’s house early one morning to try his fortune in the wide world, as the old woman had advised him.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Peter | woman's words |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Peter *not said here* | Peter's father's house |  |  | morning |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | Peter's fortune |  | the wide world |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
| 4 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **word** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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