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title: This went on all day, but as evening came on the huntsmen had gradua… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 58

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This went on all day, but as evening came on the huntsmen had gradually encircled the Roe, and one of them wounded it slightly in the foot, so that it limped and ran off slowly.

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**Who acts:** This, huntsmen, one, collar · **What happens:** go, come, encircle, wound, limp, run off · **To what, where:** huntsmen, Roe, collar, foot

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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 (This, huntsmen, one, collar), 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:pg540:10:58
# text = This went on all day, but as evening came on the huntsmen had gradually encircled the Roe, and one of them wounded it slightly in the foot, so that it limped and ran off slowly.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Roe	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	limped	limp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | This |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | This *not said here* |  |  | the huntsmen | evening |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on huntsman=Location |
| 3 | **encircle** | past · perfect | the huntsmen *not said here* | the Roe |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roe=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **wound** | past | one of huntsmen | collar |  | the foot |  | slightly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 5 | **limp** | past | collar |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run off** | past | collar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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