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title: The fresh air revived him a little, and in a short time he was able… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fresh air revived him a little, and in a short time he was able to stagger with aching limbs back to the inn where his companions were staying. Who acts: fresh air, fiddler, companions. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 26

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The fresh air revived him a little, and in a short time he was able to stagger with aching limbs back to the inn where his companions were staying.

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**Who acts:** fresh air, fiddler, companions · **What happens:** revive, be, stagger, stay · **To what, where:** fiddler

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fresh air, fiddler, companions), 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:pg7277:55:26
# text = The fresh air revived him a little, and in a short time he was able to stagger with aching limbs back to the inn where his companions were staying.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stagger	stagger	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	aching	aching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | past | the fresh air | fiddler |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | fiddler |  |  |  | time | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stagger** | to-infinitive | fiddler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with aching limbs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stay** | past · progressive | fiddler's companions |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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