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title: In the confusion that followed it was easy for Rosald to slip away a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the confusion that followed it was easy for Rosald to slip away and return Geirald his proper clothes. Who acts: confusion. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 27

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In the confusion that followed it was easy for Rosald to slip away and return Geirald his proper clothes.

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**Who acts:** confusion · **What happens:** follow, be, slip away, return · **To what, where:** confusion, Geirald

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confusion), 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:pg3282:13:27
# text = In the confusion that followed it was easy for Rosald to slip away and return Geirald his proper clothes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the confusion |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the confusion |  | for Rosald; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **slip away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **return** | infinitive |  | Geirald |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent geirald=Theme clothes=Eventuality |

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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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