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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 1

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After about two hours the Court retired, and I was left with a strong guard to keep away the crowd, some of whom had had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me as I sat by the door of my house.

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**Who acts:** Court, some, impudence, I · **What happens:** retire, leave, keep away, have, shoot, sit · **To what, where:** I, crowd, impudence, arrows

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Court, some, impudence, I), 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:pg503:44:1
# text = After about two hours the Court retired, and I was left with a strong guard to keep away the crowd, some of whom had had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me as I sat by the door of my house.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	impudence	impudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | past | the Court |  |  |  | hour |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with a strong guard | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with guard=Theme |
| 3 | **keep away** | to-infinitive |  | the crowd |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past · perfect | some | the impudence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | the impudence *not said here* | their arrows |  |  |  | at me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at i=Destination |
| 6 | **sit** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by the door of my house | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |

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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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