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title: About eleven o’clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and p… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: About eleven o’clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and putting a light to it. Who acts: eleven o’clock, o’clock. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 10

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About eleven o’clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and putting a light to it.

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**Who acts:** eleven o’clock, o’clock · **What happens:** think, see, go, put · **To what, where:** someone, rick, light, swineherd · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven o’clock, o’clock), 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:pg2435:3:10
# text = About eleven o’clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and putting a light to it.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rick	rick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | eleven o’clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | o’clock *= o'clock* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | a rick |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rick=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **put** | gerund |  | a light | swineherd |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal |

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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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