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title: Almost at the same moment her father rushed in and hunted round in e… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost at the same moment her father rushed in and hunted round in every corner, crying out: “This place smells of men. Who acts: father, place. 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 89

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Almost at the same moment her father rushed in and hunted round in every corner, crying out: “This place smells of men.

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**Who acts:** father, place · **What happens:** rush in, hunt, cry out, smell · **To what, where:** corner · **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 (father, place), 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:pg2435:33:89
# text = Almost at the same moment her father rushed in and hunted round in every corner, crying out: “This place smells of men.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush in** | past | Helga's father |  |  |  | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | participle | Helga's father *not said here* |  |  | every corner |  | round *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | Helga's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **smell** *in a quote* | present | this place |  |  |  |  | of men | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of man=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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