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title: Some way off he met the Red Knight and the rest, and the Red Knight… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some way off he met the Red Knight and the rest, and the Red Knight at first tried to take the sword from him by force. Who acts: half, Red Knight. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 79

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Some way off he met the Red Knight and the rest, and the Red Knight at first tried to take the sword from him by force.

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**Who acts:** half, Red Knight · **What happens:** meet, try, take · **To what, where:** way, sword

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, Red Knight), 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:pg3282:18:79
# text = Some way off he met the Red Knight and the rest, and the Red Knight at first tried to take the sword from him by force.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
19	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | half | some way |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **try** | past | the Red Knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Red Knight *not said here* | the sword |  |  |  | from half; by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from he=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 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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