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title: Then he took Simon’s pipe and blew into it with all his might, in th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took Simon’s pipe and blew into it with all his might, in the hopes of calling his wife back to life. Who acts: rogue, hopes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 90

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Then he took Simon’s pipe and blew into it with all his might, in the hopes of calling his wife back to life.

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**Who acts:** rogue, hopes · **What happens:** take, blow, call · **To what, where:** pipe, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue, hopes), 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:pg7277:26:90
# text = Then he took Simon’s pipe and blew into it with all his might, in the hopes of calling his wife back to life.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | rogue | Simon's pipe |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | past | rogue *not said here* |  |  | pipe |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into it=Product |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the hopes *not said here* |  | rogue's wife |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |

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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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