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title: ‘I would not say a word more than I had done previously, and he vani… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I would not say a word more than I had done previously, and he vanished, leaving me in my prison, where a deep sleep soon fell on me. Who acts: I, Magician, deep sleep. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 75

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‘I would not say a word more than I had done previously, and he vanished, leaving me in my prison, where a deep sleep soon fell on me.

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**Who acts:** I, Magician, deep sleep · **What happens:** not say, do, vanish, leave, fall · **To what, where:** word, me, prison · **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 (I, Magician, deep sleep), 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:pg7277:45:75
# text = ‘I would not say a word more than I had done previously, and he vanished, leaving me in my prison, where a deep sleep soon fell on me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | would | I | a word |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme more=Manner |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | previously *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vanish** | past | Magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | Magician *not said here* | me |  | my prison |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in prison=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | a deep sleep |  |  |  |  | on me; soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location |

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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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