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title: When they were close to the cottage where they lived he laid the chi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were close to the cottage where they lived he laid the child in a pail that was standing near the door, and ran into the house, crying: “Come quickly, wife, quickly, for I have brought you a daughter, with hair of gold and eyes like stars!” Who acts: men, hermit, pail, I. A sentence of «Th
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 97

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When they were close to the cottage where they lived he laid the child in a pail that was standing near the door, and ran into the house, crying: “Come quickly, wife, quickly, for I have brought you a daughter, with hair of gold and eyes like stars!”

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**Who acts:** men, hermit, pail, I · **What happens:** be, live, lay, stand, run, cry · **To what, where:** child, pail, door, house, wife, daughter · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, hermit, pail, I), 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:pg2435:9:97
# text = When they were close to the cottage where they lived he laid the child in a pail that was standing near the door, and ran into the house, crying: “Come quickly, wife, quickly, for I have brought you a daughter, with hair of gold and eyes like stars!”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	parataxis	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | to the cottage; close *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | hermit | the child |  | a pail |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in pail=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | a pail |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location |
| 5 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | wife |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | a daughter | you |  |  | with hair of gold and eyes like stars | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination daughter=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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