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title: and immediately the reindeer drew near, and nursed and tended the ch… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: and immediately the reindeer drew near, and nursed and tended the child the whole day long; but at nightfall it had to follow the herd, and said to the widow woman: Who acts: reindeer. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 163

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and immediately the reindeer drew near, and nursed and tended the child the whole day long; but at nightfall it had to follow the herd, and said to the widow woman:

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**Who acts:** reindeer · **What happens:** draw, nurse, tend, have, follow, say · **To what, where:** child, nightfall, herd, widow woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer), 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:pg540:14:163
# text = and immediately the reindeer drew near, and nursed and tended the child the whole day long; but at nightfall it had to follow the herd, and said to the widow woman:
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | immediately, near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nurse** | past | the reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tend** | past | the reindeer *not said here* | the child |  |  |  | long *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | reindeer |  |  | nightfall |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive | reindeer *not said here* | the herd |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the reindeer *not said here* |  | the widow woman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient |

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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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