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title: After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future. Who acts: ne
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 80

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After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future.

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**Who acts:** neighbours, Dame, idea · **What happens:** go out, find, give up, see, console, wonder · **To what, where:** nothing, idea, husband, Dame, sacks, future

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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 (neighbours, Dame, idea), 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:pg2435:16:80
# text = After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	TO	_	11	case	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	consoled	console	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	_
45	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the neighbours |  |  |  | after that | with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pole=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **give up** | past | Dame | the idea |  |  | then |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | Dame's husband |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 5 | **console** | participle | the idea *not said here* | Dame |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the sacks of corn |  | future |  | to the mill | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mill=Destination |

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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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