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title: The next morning, as he was getting near Madrid, he passed a large c… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning, as he was getting near Madrid, he passed a large chestnut tree, in whose branches the wind was caught and entangled. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 45

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The next morning, as he was getting near Madrid, he passed a large chestnut tree, in whose branches the wind was caught and entangled.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** get, pass, catch, entangle · **To what, where:** next morning, Madrid, large chestnut tree, wind, branches

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:6:45
# text = The next morning, as he was getting near Madrid, he passed a large chestnut tree, in whose branches the wind was caught and entangled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · progressive | King | the next morning *not said here* |  | Madrid |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morning=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pass** | past | King | a large chestnut tree |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the wind |  | branches |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **entangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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