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title: One day it happened that when the fisherman drew in his net he found… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day it happened that when the fisherman drew in his net he found in it a remarkable fish, for it was entirely of gold. Who acts: it, fisherman, net. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 2

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One day it happened that when the fisherman drew in his net he found in it a remarkable fish, for it was entirely of gold.

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**Who acts:** it, fisherman, net · **What happens:** happen, draw, find, be · **To what, where:** net, remarkable fish

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, fisherman, net), 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:pg7277:49:2
# text = One day it happened that when the fisherman drew in his net he found in it a remarkable fish, for it was entirely of gold.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the fisherman |  |  | fisherman's net |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in net=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | fisherman | a remarkable fish |  | net |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | net |  |  |  |  | for gold; entirely *property* | tree rules |

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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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