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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 86

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They had not gone very far, when, riding across a mountain, they caught a glimpse of several armed men hiding amongst some trees in their path, and remembered suddenly some talk they had heard of a band of twelve robbers who lay in wait for rich travellers.

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**Who acts:** adventures, several armed men, twelve robbers · **What happens:** not go, ride, catch, hide, remember, hear · **To what, where:** mountain, glimpse, path, talk, wait, several armed men

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, several armed men, twelve robbers), 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:pg3282:12:86
# text = They had not gone very far, when, riding across a mountain, they caught a glimpse of several armed men hiding amongst some trees in their path, and remembered suddenly some talk they had heard of a band of twelve robbers who lay in wait for rich travellers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  | a mountain |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across mountain=Trajectory |
| 3 | **catch** | past | adventures *= adventure* | a glimpse of several armed men |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | several armed men *not said here* |  |  | adventures's path |  | amongst some trees | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst tree=Location |
| 5 | **remember** | past | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* | some talk |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** | past · perfect | adventures *= adventure* | some talk *not said here* |  |  |  | of a band of twelve robbers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lay** | present | twelve robbers |  |  | wait |  | for rich travellers | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for traveller=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **glimpse** |  |  | several armed men |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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