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title: And when he went back for them there he found two horrid old black h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he went back for them there he found two horrid old black hags, wrangling, and scolding, and scratching! Who acts: Kabo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 125

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And when he went back for them there he found two horrid old black hags, wrangling, and scolding, and scratching!

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**Who acts:** Kabo · **What happens:** go back, find, wrangle · **To what, where:** two horrid old black hags, scolding

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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:pg3282:19:125
# text = And when he went back for them there he found two horrid old black hags, wrangling, and scolding, and scratching!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
12	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scolding	scolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	scratching	scratching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Kabo |  |  | there |  | for nuts *= nut* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | Kabo | two horrid old black hags |  |  |  | scratching *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Topic |
| 3 | **wrangle** | gerund | Kabo *not said here* | scolding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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