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title: He had not driven far when he met a squirrel, who bowed and said: “G… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not driven far when he met a squirrel, who bowed and said: “Good-morning, godfather! what have you got behind you?” Who acts: marten, squirrel, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 25

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He had not driven far when he met a squirrel, who bowed and said: “Good-morning, godfather! what have you got behind you?”

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**Who acts:** marten, squirrel, you · **What happens:** not drive, meet, bow, say, get · **To what, where:** squirrel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marten, squirrel, you), 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:pg2435:24:25
# text = He had not driven far when he met a squirrel, who bowed and said: “Good-morning, godfather! what have you got behind you?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	godfather	godfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drive** | past · perfect | marten |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | past | marten | a squirrel |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bow** | past | a squirrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a squirrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | behind you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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