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title: Thereupon he hastened into the nearest field and dug up a dozen or s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon he hastened into the nearest field and dug up a dozen or so of different roots—carrots, turnips, and radishes—and laying them carefully in an elegant basket brought them to the princess, who sat pensive in the shade of the rose-bower. Who acts: mortal, radishes, carrots, princess. A senten
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40

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Thereupon he hastened into the nearest field and dug up a dozen or so of different roots—carrots, turnips, and radishes—and laying them carefully in an elegant basket brought them to the princess, who sat pensive in the shade of the rose-bower.

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**Who acts:** mortal, radishes, carrots, princess · **What happens:** hasten, dig up, lay, bring, sit, shade · **To what, where:** nearest field, dozen, carrots, elegant basket, radishes, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal, radishes, carrots, princess), 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:pg3282:31:40
# text = Thereupon he hastened into the nearest field and dug up a dozen or so of different roots—carrots, turnips, and radishes—and laying them carefully in an elegant basket brought them to the princess, who sat pensive in the shade of the rose-bower.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	turnips	turnip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	radishes	radish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	pensive	pensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | mortal |  |  | the nearest field |  | thereupon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination |
| 2 | **dig up** | participle | mortal *not said here* | a dozen |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | radishes *not said here* | carrots *= carrot* |  | a elegant basket |  | carefully *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | past | carrots and turnips and radishes | radishes *= radish* | the princess |  |  | of different roots | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme of root=Initial\_Location to princess=Destination |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the princess |  |  | the shade of the rose bower |  | pensive *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location |
| 6 | **shade** |  |  | the rose bower |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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