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title: Then tell him that you have dreamt that he was just being carried of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then tell him that you have dreamt that he was just being carried off by the Turks because he could not answer the question about the foals, when the lad whom he had shut up in the tower ran up and told them which was foaled in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.” Who acts: you, Tu
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 89

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Then tell him that you have dreamt that he was just being carried off by the Turks because he could not answer the question about the foals, when the lad whom he had shut up in the tower ran up and told them which was foaled in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.”

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**Who acts:** you, Turks, father, lad · **What happens:** tell, dreamt, carry off, not answer, shut up, run up · **To what, where:** father, question, lad, tower, foals · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Turks, father, lad), 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:pg2435:7:89
# text = Then tell him that you have dreamt that he was just being carried off by the Turks because he could not answer the question about the foals, when the lad whom he had shut up in the tower ran up and told them which was foaled in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	iobj	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	foaled	foal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	ccomp	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | father |  | then; evening |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **dreamt** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry off** | past · passive | the Turks | father |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | father | the question |  |  |  | about the foals | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 5 | **shut up** | past · perfect | father | the lad |  | the tower |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 6 | **run up** | past | the lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* |  | foals *= foal* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **foal** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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