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title: They awoke at once, and, seizing him, beat him and put him into chai… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They awoke at once, and, seizing him, beat him and put him into chains. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 21

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They awoke at once, and, seizing him, beat him and put him into chains.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** awake, seize, beat, put · **To what, where:** emperor, chains

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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:pg7277:52:21
# text = They awoke at once, and, seizing him, beat him and put him into chains.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund |  | emperor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | infinitive |  | emperor |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  |  | emperor | chains |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

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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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