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title: The tailor, with new-born courage, sprang up, threw on his clothes w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tailor, with new-born courage, sprang up, threw on his clothes with all speed and hurried out. Who acts: new born courage, tailor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 18

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The tailor, with new-born courage, sprang up, threw on his clothes with all speed and hurried out.

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**Who acts:** new born courage, tailor · **What happens:** bear, sprang up, throw, hurry out · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new born courage, tailor), 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:pg7277:45:18
# text = The tailor, with new-born courage, sprang up, threw on his clothes with all speed and hurried out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sprang	sprang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sprang up** | infinitive | new born courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | past | the tailor |  |  | tailor's clothes |  | with all speed | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 4 | **hurry out** | participle | the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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