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title: Then Kisa entered the hut, and lost no time in searching every hole… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Kisa entered the hut, and lost no time in searching every hole till she came upon some grass, under which Ingibjorg’s feet were hidden, and putting them in her cart, drove back again to her own hut. Who acts: Kisa, time. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 43

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Then Kisa entered the hut, and lost no time in searching every hole till she came upon some grass, under which Ingibjorg’s feet were hidden, and putting them in her cart, drove back again to her own hut.

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**Who acts:** Kisa, time · **What happens:** enter, lose, search, come, hide, put · **To what, where:** hut, hole, grass, feet, cart, own hut

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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 (Kisa, time), 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:pg3282:28:43
# text = Then Kisa entered the hut, and lost no time in searching every hole till she came upon some grass, under which Ingibjorg’s feet were hidden, and putting them in her cart, drove back again to her own hut.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
24	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
37	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Kisa | the hut |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Kisa *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **search** | gerund | no time *not said here* | every hole |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | Kisa |  |  | some grass |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Location |
| 5 | **hide** | past · passive |  | Ingibjorg's feet |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under which=Location |
| 6 | **put** | gerund |  | feet *= foot* |  | Kisa's cart |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cart=Destination |
| 7 | **drive back** | past | Kisa *not said here* |  |  | Kisa's own hut | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hut=Trajectory |

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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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