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title: Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the sn… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the snuff, and offered one to Mansor, who also took one, and both cried together ‘Mutabor!’ Who acts: Heaven, Mansor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 53

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Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the snuff, and offered one to Mansor, who also took one, and both cried together ‘Mutabor!’

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**Who acts:** Heaven, Mansor · **What happens:** draw, take, offer, cry, pinch · **To what, where:** box, girdle, good pinch, one, Mansor, Mutabor

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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 (Heaven, Mansor), 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:pg7277:7:53
# text = Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the snuff, and offered one to Mansor, who also took one, and both cried together ‘Mutabor!’
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Heaven | the box |  | Heaven's girdle |  | quickly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme from girdle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | Heaven *not said here* | a good pinch of the snuff |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Heaven *not said here* | one | Mansor |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to mansor=Goal |
| 4 | **take** | past | Mansor | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Heaven *not said here* | Mutabor |  |  |  | together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pinch** |  |  | the snuff |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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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