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title: In one of these bad men the two recognised the pedlar who had sold t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of these bad men the two recognised the pedlar who had sold the magic powder. Who acts: two. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 159

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In one of these bad men the two recognised the pedlar who had sold the magic powder.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** recognise, sell · **To what, where:** pedlar

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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 (two), 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:pg7277:7:159
# text = In one of these bad men the two recognised the pedlar who had sold the magic powder.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
9	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the two | the pedlar |  |  |  | in one; of this bad men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pedlar=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sell** | past · perfect · passive |  | the pedlar |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient powder=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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