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title: After the hunting party had started she hid Sigurd under her bed, an… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the hunting party had started she hid Sigurd under her bed, and bade him be sure to lie there till she called him. Who acts: stepmother, bade. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 5

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After the hunting party had started she hid Sigurd under her bed, and bade him be sure to lie there till she called him.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, bade · **What happens:** start, hide, be, lie, call · **To what, where:** hunting party, Sigurd, bed · **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 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, bade), 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:pg2435:33:5
# text = After the hunting party had started she hid Sigurd under her bed, and bade him be sure to lie there till she called him.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hunting party |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hide** | past | stepmother | Sigurd |  | stepmother's bed |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient under bed=Location |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | bade |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | to-infinitive | bade *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | past | stepmother |  | Sigurd |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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