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title: But hardly had the castle gates closed on the prince than the hare s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But hardly had the castle gates closed on the prince than the hare sprang out of the bushes as before, and led the huntsman up hill and down dale, till they reached the mill. Who acts: hare, Prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its depen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 39

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But hardly had the castle gates closed on the prince than the hare sprang out of the bushes as before, and led the huntsman up hill and down dale, till they reached the mill.

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**Who acts:** hare, Prince · **What happens:** have, close, spring out, lead, reach · **To what, where:** castle gates, bushes, huntsman, mill

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, Prince), 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:pg2435:8:39
# text = But hardly had the castle gates closed on the prince than the hare sprang out of the bushes as before, and led the huntsman up hill and down dale, till they reached the mill.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound	_	_
27	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the castle gates |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | the castle gates *not said here* |  |  |  | on the prince | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **spring out** | past | the hare | the bushes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location bush=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | past |  | the huntsman and hill and dale |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Prince | the mill |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mill=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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