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title: As soon as the woodpecker came back with the root in her beak out ru… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the woodpecker came back with the root in her beak out rushed Master Peter from behind the tree and displayed the fiery red cloak so adroitly that the terrified bird dropped the root just where it could be easily seen. Who acts: terrified bird. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by An
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57

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As soon as the woodpecker came back with the root in her beak out rushed Master Peter from behind the tree and displayed the fiery red cloak so adroitly that the terrified bird dropped the root just where it could be easily seen.

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**Who acts:** terrified bird · **What happens:** come back, rush, display, drop, see · **To what, where:** Master Peter, tree, fiery red cloak, root, cloak

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrified bird), 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:pg2435:16:57
# text = As soon as the woodpecker came back with the root in her beak out rushed Master Peter from behind the tree and displayed the fiery red cloak so adroitly that the terrified bird dropped the root just where it could be easily seen.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	in	in	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	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	adroitly	adroitly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	just	just	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the woodpecker; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past |  | Master Peter |  | the tree |  | with the root in root's beak | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent peter=Theme from tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **display** | past |  | the fiery red cloak |  |  |  | adroitly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 4 | **drop** | past | the terrified bird | the root |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | could · passive |  | cloak |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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