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title: There he left them, and there they were found by the man and woman w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he left them, and there they were found by the man and woman who had met him at home beside the sea, and had helped him to start on his journey. Who acts: boy, man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 110

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There he left them, and there they were found by the man and woman who had met him at home beside the sea, and had helped him to start on his journey.

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**Who acts:** boy, man · **What happens:** leave, find, meet, help, start, journey · **To what, where:** shoes, boy, home, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man), 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:pg503:27:110
# text = There he left them, and there they were found by the man and woman who had met him at home beside the sea, and had helped him to start on his journey.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | boy | shoes *= shoe* |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive | the man and woman | shoes *= shoe* |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | the man and woman | boy |  | home beside the sea |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **help** | past · perfect | boy *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | boy's journey |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **journey** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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