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title: “They are easily carried,” said Sigurd, gazing at them with scorn; “… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “They are easily carried,” said Sigurd, gazing at them with scorn; “what wretched dried-up things! Who acts: Sigurd. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 1

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“They are easily carried,” said Sigurd, gazing at them with scorn; “what wretched dried-up things!

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**Who acts:** Sigurd · **What happens:** carry, say, gaze, dry up · **To what, where:** They · **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 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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:pg2435:34:1
# text = “They are easily carried,” said Sigurd, gazing at them with scorn; “what wretched dried-up things!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	_
19	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at them *= they*; with scorn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 4 | **dry up** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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