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title: The Magician appeared again, and told me that he had transformed my… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician appeared again, and told me that he had transformed my brother into a stag, had reduced our castle and all its defences to miniature and locked them up in a glass box, and after turning all our household into different vapours had banished them into glass phials. Who acts: Magician, cas
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 73

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The Magician appeared again, and told me that he had transformed my brother into a stag, had reduced our castle and all its defences to miniature and locked them up in a glass box, and after turning all our household into different vapours had banished them into glass phials.

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**Who acts:** Magician, castle · **What happens:** appear, tell, transform, reduce, miniature, lock up · **To what, where:** me, brother, stag, castle, defences, glass box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Magician, castle), 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:pg7277:45:73
# text = The Magician appeared again, and told me that he had transformed my brother into a stag, had reduced our castle and all its defences to miniature and locked them up in a glass box, and after turning all our household into different vapours had banished them into glass phials.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	defences	defence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	miniature	miniature	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
39	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	vapours	vapour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	phials	phial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the Magician |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Magician *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **transform** | past · perfect | Magician | my brother |  |  |  | into a stag *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent brother=Patient into stag=Result |
| 4 | **reduce** | past · perfect | the Magician *not said here* | our castle |  |  |  | castle's defences *obl:unmarked* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer castle=Patient |
| 5 | **miniature** | to-infinitive | the Magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lock up** | past | the Magician *not said here* | defences *= defence* |  | a glass box |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **turn** | gerund |  | our household |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent household=Theme |
| 8 | **banish** | past · perfect | the Magician *not said here* | defences *= defence* |  | different vapours |  | into glass phials | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 9 | **defend** |  | castle |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process 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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