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title: Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and br… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke. Who acts: young couple. 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 81

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Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke.

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**Who acts:** young couple · **What happens:** return, mean, bring up, fill · **To what, where:** young couple, glass vessels

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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 (young couple), 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:pg7277:45:81
# text = Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	movable	movable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  | the young couple *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the young couple |  |  |  | then | of the movable stone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring up** | past | the young couple *not said here* | all glass vessels |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  | all glass vessels *not said here* |  |  |  | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smoke=Instrument |

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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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