--- title: Then the huntsman stole after it as far as the little house, and hea… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the huntsman stole after it as far as the little house, and heard it call out, ‘My sister dear, open; I’m here,’ and he saw the door open and close immediately the fawn had run in. Who acts: huntsman, collar, I, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/) / 59 # The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 59 Then the huntsman stole after it as far as the little house, and heard it call out, ‘My sister dear, open; I’m here,’ and he saw the door open and close immediately the fawn had run in. **Who acts:** huntsman, collar, I, King · **What happens:** steal, hear, call out, be, see, run · **To what, where:** collar, door, fawn 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 (huntsman, collar, I, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:10:59 # text = Then the huntsman stole after it as far as the little house, and heard it call out, ‘My sister dear, open; I’m here,’ and he saw the door open and close immediately the fawn had run in. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 45 in in ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | past | the huntsman | | | | after collar; then | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | the huntsman *not said here* | collar | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | infinitive | collar *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be** | present | I | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | King | the door | | | | open *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | | 6 | **run** | past · perfect · passive | | the fawn | | | | immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/60/) - ↑ back to [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/)