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title: When he passed through the gates all the people came out of their ho… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he passed through the gates all the people came out of their houses to stare in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake. Who acts: prince, people. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 11

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When he passed through the gates all the people came out of their houses to stare in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.

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**Who acts:** prince, people · **What happens:** pass, come out, stare, not have, return · **To what, where:** gates, houses, flock, lake

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, people), 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:pg2435:9:11
# text = When he passed through the gates all the people came out of their houses to stare in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | prince |  |  | the gates |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | all people | people's houses |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
| 3 | **stare** | to-infinitive | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in wonder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wonder=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **have** | participle | all people *not said here* | any flock |  |  |  | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient |
| 5 | **return** | participle |  | any flock *not said here* |  | the lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial\_Location |

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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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