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title: The good man’s daughter hastened home again betimes, but the King’s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The good man’s daughter hastened home again betimes, but the King’s son had smeared the door-posts with tar, and the girl’s golden circlet stuck to it. 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 cla
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 72

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The good man’s daughter hastened home again betimes, but the King’s son had smeared the door-posts with tar, and the girl’s golden circlet stuck to it.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** hasten, smear, stick · **To what, where:** son, golden circlet, circlet

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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:pg540:14:72
# text = The good man’s daughter hastened home again betimes, but the King’s son had smeared the door-posts with tar, and the girl’s golden circlet stuck to it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	betimes	betimes	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	smeared	smear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	circlet	circlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
31	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hasten** | participle | the good man's daughter |  |  |  | again | betimes, home *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **smear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the King's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | participle |  | the girl's golden circlet *not said here* | circlet |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |

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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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