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title: So off sprang the little Roe, and he felt quite well and happy in th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So off sprang the little Roe, and he felt quite well and happy in the free open air. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 49

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So off sprang the little Roe, and he felt quite well and happy in the free open air.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** spring, feel · **To what, where:** little Roe

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg540:10:49
# text = So off sprang the little Roe, and he felt quite well and happy in the free open air.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Roe	Roe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past |  | the little Roe |  |  |  | off *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location roe=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | King |  |  |  |  | in the free open air; well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in air=Attribute |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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