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title: ‘I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in the street at Mecca,’ said the pedlar. Who acts: I, merchant. 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 16

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‘I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in the street at Mecca,’ said the pedlar.

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**Who acts:** I, merchant · **What happens:** get, pick up, say · **To what, where:** two articles, merchant, articles, street, pedlar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, merchant), 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:pg7277:7:16
# text = ‘I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in the street at Mecca,’ said the pedlar.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | this two articles |  | a merchant |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent article=Theme from merchant=Source |
| 2 | **pick up** | past · perfect | a merchant | articles *= article* |  | the street |  | at Mecca | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the pedlar |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pedlar=Topic |

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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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