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title: Arrived at home, she took off her clothes by the birch tree, left he… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Arrived at home, she took off her clothes by the birch tree, left her horse standing there, and hastened to her place behind the stove. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 55

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Arrived at home, she took off her clothes by the birch tree, left her horse standing there, and hastened to her place behind the stove.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** arrive, take off, leave, stand, hasten · **To what, where:** home, clothes, horse, place

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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 (daughter), 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:pg540:14:55
# text = Arrived at home, she took off her clothes by the birch tree, left her horse standing there, and hastened to her place behind the stove.
1	Arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | participle |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take off** | past | daughter | daughter's clothes |  |  |  | by the birch tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | daughter *not said here* | daughter's horse |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hasten** | participle | daughter *not said here* |  |  | daughter's place behind the stove |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=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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