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title: And rushing out of the cave, followed by his wife, he ran down the p… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And rushing out of the cave, followed by his wife, he ran down the path which led to the river. Who acts: giant, path. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 42

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And rushing out of the cave, followed by his wife, he ran down the path which led to the river.

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**Who acts:** giant, path · **What happens:** rush out, follow, run down, lead · **To what, where:** cave, path

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, path), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:2501`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:28:42
# text = And rushing out of the cave, followed by his wife, he ran down the path which led to the river.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush out** | gerund | giant *not said here* | the cave |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | participle | giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by giant's wife | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by wife=Location |
| 3 | **run down** | past | giant | the path |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the path |  |  |  |  | to the river | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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