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title: He hadn’t to search long, for the unicorn soon passed by, and, on pe… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He hadn’t to search long, for the unicorn soon passed by, and, on perceiving the tailor, dashed straight at him as though it were going to spike him on the spot. Who acts: unicorn, wood. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 113

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He hadn’t to search long, for the unicorn soon passed by, and, on perceiving the tailor, dashed straight at him as though it were going to spike him on the spot.

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**Who acts:** unicorn, wood · **What happens:** not have, search, pass by, perceive, dash, go · **To what, where:** unicorn, tailor, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn, wood), 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:pg503:42:113
# text = He hadn’t to search long, for the unicorn soon passed by, and, on perceiving the tailor, dashed straight at him as though it were going to spike him on the spot.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	spike	spike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past | unicorn |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | unicorn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the unicorn; long *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for unicorn=Theme |
| 3 | **pass by** | participle |  | the unicorn *not said here* |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **perceive** | gerund |  | the tailor |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus |
| 5 | **dash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at unicorn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **go** | past · progressive | wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **spike** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* | unicorn |  | the spot |  |  | tree rules |

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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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