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title: He took her gently in his arms, but she did not seem at all frighten… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He took her gently in his arms, but she did not seem at all frightened, and only jumped and crowed with delight; and the old man wrapped his cloak round her, and set off for home as fast as his legs would carry him. Who acts: hermit, girl, old man, legs. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by And
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 96

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He took her gently in his arms, but she did not seem at all frightened, and only jumped and crowed with delight; and the old man wrapped his cloak round her, and set off for home as fast as his legs would carry him.

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**Who acts:** hermit, girl, old man, legs · **What happens:** take, not seem, frighten, jump, crow, wrap · **To what, where:** girl, arms, all, cloak, hermit

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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 (hermit, girl, old man, legs), 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:pg2435:9:96
# text = He took her gently in his arms, but she did not seem at all frightened, and only jumped and crowed with delight; and the old man wrapped his cloak round her, and set off for home as fast as his legs would carry him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	round	round	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | hermit | girl |  | hermit's arms |  | gently *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | girl | all |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Attribute |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **jump** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **crow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with delight | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wrap** | past | the old man | hermit's cloak |  |  |  | round girl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 7 | **set off** | past | hermit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for home; fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **carry** | would | hermit's legs | hermit |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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