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title: When everything was in order, he hastened home to his master with su… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 57

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When everything was in order, he hastened home to his master with such a sorrowful face that the herdsman saw at once that something dreadful had happened.

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**Who acts:** everything, swamp, herdsman, something · **What happens:** be, hasten, see, happen · **To what, where:** order, master · **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 (everything, swamp, herdsman, something), 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:pg2435:26:57
# text = When everything was in order, he hastened home to his master with such a sorrowful face that the herdsman saw at once that something dreadful had happened.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | swamp |  |  | swamp's master with such sorrowful face |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to master=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | the herdsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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