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title: The old woman picked them up, and tucking them under her arm went on… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman picked them up, and tucking them under her arm went on her way, keeping at a little distance behind the royal huntsmen, who in their turn followed the prince. Who acts: old woman, tucking, royal huntsmen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, pa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 57

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The old woman picked them up, and tucking them under her arm went on her way, keeping at a little distance behind the royal huntsmen, who in their turn followed the prince.

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**Who acts:** old woman, tucking, royal huntsmen · **What happens:** pick up, tuck, go, keep, follow · **To what, where:** kettle, arm, way, royal huntsmen, prince, turn

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, tucking, royal huntsmen), 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:pg2435:10:57
# text = The old woman picked them up, and tucking them under her arm went on her way, keeping at a little distance behind the royal huntsmen, who in their turn followed the prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	tucking	tuck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
33	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | the old woman | kettle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **tuck** | gerund |  | kettle |  | woman's arm |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme under arm=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | past | tucking |  |  | woman's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | tucking *not said here* |  |  | the royal huntsmen |  | at a little distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
| 5 | **follow** | past | the royal huntsmen | the prince |  | kettle's turn |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in turn=Trajectory |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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