--- title: He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devou… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether. Who acts: tailor, big smoothing iron, wind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, big smoothing iron, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:45:6 # text = He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 devoutly devoutly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 thankful thankful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 smoothing smoothing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 44 easily easily ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 45 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux _ _ 46 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 advcl _ _ 48 away away ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seek out** | past | tailor | a tall oak tree | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 2 | **climb up** | past | | | | the top | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | | 3 | **feel** | past | tailor *not said here* | | | | | thankful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | tailor's big smoothing iron | | | tailor's pocket | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the wind in the tree tops | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **blow away** | might · perfect · passive | | tailor | | | | altogether, away, easily *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/7/) - ↑ back to [The Crystal Coffin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/)