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title: But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying: Who acts: man, awful Etin, nae. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 25

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But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying:

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**Who acts:** man, awful Etin, nae · **What happens:** not be, come in, hear, cry · **To what, where:** hidy hole, nae

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, awful Etin, nae), 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:pg503:56:25
# text = But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hidy	hidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	nae	nae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
29	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | man |  |  | man's hidy hole |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | past | the awful Etin | man's hidy hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | nae |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | nae *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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