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title: The man had to betake himself to his former trade, and set to fishin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man had to betake himself to his former trade, and set to fishing again. Who acts: man, curiosity. 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 29

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The man had to betake himself to his former trade, and set to fishing again.

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**Who acts:** man, curiosity · **What happens:** have, betake, set, trade · **To what, where:** curiosity

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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 (man, curiosity), 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:pg7277:49:29
# text = The man had to betake himself to his former trade, and set to fishing again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	betake	betake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **betake** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | curiosity |  |  |  | to curiosity's former trade | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | again | to fishing | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **trade** |  | curiosity |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act 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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