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title: The wretch not long after managed to approach me under another form,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wretch not long after managed to approach me under another form, and one day, when I was in the garden, and asked for some refreshment, he brought me--in the disguise of a slave--a draught which changed me at once to this horrid shape. Who acts: I, father, draught. A sentence of «The Green Fairy
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 124

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The wretch not long after managed to approach me under another form, and one day, when I was in the garden, and asked for some refreshment, he brought me--in the disguise of a slave--a draught which changed me at once to this horrid shape.

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**Who acts:** I, father, draught · **What happens:** manage, approach, be, ask, bring, change · **To what, where:** wretch, me, form, garden, disguise

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, draught), 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:pg7277:7:124
# text = The wretch not long after managed to approach me under another form, and one day, when I was in the garden, and asked for some refreshment, he brought me--in the disguise of a slave--a draught which changed me at once to this horrid shape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	obl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
51	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | participle |  | the wretch *not said here* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **approach** | to-infinitive |  | me |  | another form |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the garden |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for some refreshment | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | past | father |  | me | the disguise of a slave and a draught |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 6 | **change** | past | a draught | me |  |  |  | to this horrid shape | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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