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title: Then the enchantment was broken, and all the lords and ladies who ha… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the enchantment was broken, and all the lords and ladies who had so long been transformed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes, and the castle vanished away in a cloud of smoke. Who acts: lords, castle. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 130

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Then the enchantment was broken, and all the lords and ladies who had so long been transformed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes, and the castle vanished away in a cloud of smoke.

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**Who acts:** lords, castle · **What happens:** break, transform, return, vanish away, cloud · **To what, where:** enchantment, ladies, cloud, smoke

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, castle), 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:pg7439:23:130
# text = Then the enchantment was broken, and all the lords and ladies who had so long been transformed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes, and the castle vanished away in a cloud of smoke.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · passive |  | the enchantment |  |  | then |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **transform** | past · perfect · passive |  | ladies |  |  |  | into birds and beasts *result*; long *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=Result |
| 3 | **return** | past | all lords and ladies |  |  |  |  | to beasts's proper shapes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result |
| 4 | **vanish away** | past | the castle |  |  | a cloud of smoke |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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