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title: This went on for some time till, one day, the servant who removed th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This went on for some time till, one day, the servant who removed the dish was so overcome with curiosity, that he could not resist carrying it off to his own room. Who acts: This, servant, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 6

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This went on for some time till, one day, the servant who removed the dish was so overcome with curiosity, that he could not resist carrying it off to his own room.

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**Who acts:** This, servant, King · **What happens:** go on, remove, be, not resist, carry off · **To what, where:** dish, time till, servant, own room

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, servant, King), 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:pg7277:50:6
# text = This went on for some time till, one day, the servant who removed the dish was so overcome with curiosity, that he could not resist carrying it off to his own room.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	overcome	overcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
29	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | This |  |  |  |  | for some time till and one day | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | past | the servant | the dish |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the servant | some time till and one day *not said here* |  |  |  | with curiosity; overcome *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **resist** | could | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry off** | gerund | King *not said here* | servant |  | King's own room |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to room=Destination |

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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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