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title: The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the ch… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit. Who acts: horrid pair set, chest, set. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 64

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The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit.

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**Who acts:** horrid pair set, chest, set · **What happens:** devour, be, put, disappear, come, leave · **To what, where:** chest, shoulder, trace

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrid pair set, chest, set), 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:pg3282:30:64
# text = The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devour** | past | the horrid pair set | chest |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the chest |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | chest |  | set's shoulder |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the horrid pair set *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | set |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | set *not said here* | any trace of set's visit |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme |
| 7 | **visit** |  | set |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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