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title: Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his heels that Peter had barely time to clamber up a tall tree, where Eisenkopf could not reach him. Who acts: Eisenkopf, Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 24

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Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his heels that Peter had barely time to clamber up a tall tree, where Eisenkopf could not reach him.

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**Who acts:** Eisenkopf, Peter · **What happens:** see, go, follow, have, clamber up, not reach · **To what, where:** Eisenkopf, heels, tall tree, Peter

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eisenkopf, 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:pg2435:28:24
# text = Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his heels that Peter had barely time to clamber up a tall tree, where Eisenkopf could not reach him.
1	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	clamber	clamber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | Eisenkopf |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Eisenkopf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  | Peter's heels |  | closely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | Peter |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **clamber up** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | a tall tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **reach** | could | Eisenkopf | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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