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title: The guards led him away and thrust him into the pit with the white b… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The guards led him away and thrust him into the pit with the white bear, who had had nothing to eat for two days and was very hungry. Who acts: guards, white bear. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86

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The guards led him away and thrust him into the pit with the white bear, who had had nothing to eat for two days and was very hungry.

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**Who acts:** guards, white bear · **What happens:** lead away, thrust, have, eat, be · **To what, where:** shepherd, pit, nothing

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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, white bear), 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:pg2435:3:86
# text = The guards led him away and thrust him into the pit with the white bear, who had had nothing to eat for two days and was very hungry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead away** | past | the guards | shepherd |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **thrust** | infinitive | the guards *not said here* | shepherd |  | the pit |  | with the white bear | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past · perfect | the white bear | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the white bear *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the guards *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | 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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