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title: So the fisherman went home, and when he came there he saw the whole… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the fisherman went home, and when he came there he saw the whole castle was made of polished marble, ornamented with alabaster statues and gold. Who acts: fisherman, flounder. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 129

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So the fisherman went home, and when he came there he saw the whole castle was made of polished marble, ornamented with alabaster statues and gold.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, flounder · **What happens:** go, come, see, make, polish, ornament · **To what, where:** whole castle, polished marble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, flounder), 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:pg7277:54:129
# text = So the fisherman went home, and when he came there he saw the whole castle was made of polished marble, ornamented with alabaster statues and gold.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | flounder |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | flounder |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | the whole castle |  |  |  | of polished marble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ornament** | participle |  | polished marble *not said here* |  |  |  | with alabaster statues and gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with statue=Theme |

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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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