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title: So, filling his pockets with the gold, he carefully locked the empty… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, filling his pockets with the gold, he carefully locked the empty cupboard again and left the house without further delay. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 66

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So, filling his pockets with the gold, he carefully locked the empty cupboard again and left the house without further delay.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** fill, lock, leave · **To what, where:** pockets, empty cupboard, house

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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 (Peter), 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:pg2435:16:66
# text = So, filling his pockets with the gold, he carefully locked the empty cupboard again and left the house without further delay.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | Peter's pockets |  |  |  | with the gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 2 | **lock** | past | Peter | the empty cupboard |  |  | again | carefully *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupboard=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Peter *not said here* | the house |  |  |  | without further delay | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

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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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