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title: The guards dragged him away to a dark dungeon, in the middle of whic… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The guards dragged him away to a dark dungeon, in the middle of which was a deep well with sharp scythes all round it. Who acts: guards, middle. 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 103

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The guards dragged him away to a dark dungeon, in the middle of which was a deep well with sharp scythes all round it.

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**Who acts:** guards, middle · **What happens:** drag away, be · **To what, where:** shepherd, middle, deep well

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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 (guards, middle), 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:pg2435:3:103
# text = The guards dragged him away to a dark dungeon, in the middle of which was a deep well with sharp scythes all round it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	scythes	scythe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag away** | past | the guards | shepherd |  | the middle |  | to a dark dungeon; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dungeon=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the middle | a deep well |  |  |  | with sharp scythes | tree rules |

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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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