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title: He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched. Who acts: rain. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 85

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He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.

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**Who acts:** rain · **What happens:** go up, take, see, drench · **To what, where:** shelter, young birds, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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:pg540:13:85
# text = He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | rain |  |  |  |  | to a tree; in order | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in order=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | rain *not said here* | shelter |  | shelter |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | rain | some young birds |  | that tree |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drench** | past · progressive · passive |  | some young birds |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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