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description: He questioned his wife sharply, and told her that if she could not find and bring back the hairy man he would put her in a hut made of rushes and burn her there. Who acts: king, wife. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 21

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He questioned his wife sharply, and told her that if she could not find and bring back the hairy man he would put her in a hut made of rushes and burn her there.

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**Who acts:** king, wife · **What happens:** question, tell, not find, bring back, put, make · **To what, where:** wife, hairy man, hut · **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 (king, wife), 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:pg2435:3:21
# text = He questioned his wife sharply, and told her that if she could not find and bring back the hairy man he would put her in a hut made of rushes and burn her there.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | past | king |  | king's wife |  |  | sharply *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* |  | wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring back** | infinitive | wife *not said here* |  | the hairy man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 5 | **put** | would | king | wife |  | a hut |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in hut=Destination |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  | a hut *not said here* |  |  |  | of rushes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **burn** | infinitive | king *not said here* | wife |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=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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