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title: ‘I went nearer, and saw a silken cord hanging down to the ground, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I went nearer, and saw a silken cord hanging down to the ground, and pulled it just because it was so close to my hand. Who acts: I, silken cord, cord. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 44

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‘I went nearer, and saw a silken cord hanging down to the ground, and pulled it just because it was so close to my hand.

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**Who acts:** I, silken cord, cord · **What happens:** go, see, hang down, pull, be · **To what, where:** silken cord, cord

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, silken cord, cord), 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:pg7277:38:44
# text = ‘I went nearer, and saw a silken cord hanging down to the ground, and pulled it just because it was so close to my hand.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | I *not said here* | a silken cord |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang down** | gerund | a silken cord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ground; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pull** | past | I *not said here* | cord |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | cord |  |  |  |  | to my hand; close *property* | tree rules |

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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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