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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 145

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After watching them for a little, however, he began to get over his alarm, and finally slid down the tree again, resolved to get his gun and play some tricks with them.

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**Who acts:** Rasmus · **What happens:** watch, begin, get, slide down, resolve, play · **To what, where:** Giants, alarm, tree, gun, tricks

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus), 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:pg2435:29:145
# text = After watching them for a little, however, he began to get over his alarm, and finally slid down the tree again, resolved to get his gun and play some tricks with them.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	over	over	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	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | Rasmus *not said here* | Giants *= giant* |  |  |  | for a little | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for little=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Rasmus |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | Rasmus *not said here* |  |  | Rasmus's alarm |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over alarm=Destination |
| 4 | **slide down** | past | Rasmus *not said here* | the tree |  |  | again | finally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Agent |
| 5 | **resolve** | participle | Rasmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | Rasmus *not said here* | Rasmus's gun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus |
| 7 | **play** | infinitive | Rasmus *not said here* | some tricks |  |  |  | with Giants *= giant* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with they=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **alarm** |  | Rasmus |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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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