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title: Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought that perhaps the fox might have power to take away the castle, and leave him as poor as when he had nothing to eat but the pears off his tree. Who acts: you, Piro, fox, power. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21

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Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought that perhaps the fox might have power to take away the castle, and leave him as poor as when he had nothing to eat but the pears off his tree.

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**Who acts:** you, Piro, fox, power · **What happens:** count, frighten, hear, think, have, take away · **To what, where:** Piro, words, power, castle, fox, nothing · **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 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Piro, fox, power), 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:pg2435:26:21
# text = Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought that perhaps the fox might have power to take away the castle, and leave him as poor as when he had nothing to eat but the pears off his tree.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Piro	Piro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	away	away	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Piro |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Piro | this words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Piro |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | might | the fox | power |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **take away** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | infinitive |  | fox |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | past | fox | nothing |  |  |  | off fox's tree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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