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title: When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she ha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she had feared that the fairies had carried him away, or that the Giant had found him. Who acts: mother, Giant. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 19

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When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she had feared that the fairies had carried him away, or that the Giant had found him.

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**Who acts:** mother, Giant · **What happens:** see, enter, weep, fear, carry away, find · **To what, where:** Giant, house, fairies

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Giant), 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:pg540:17:19
# text = When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she had feared that the fairies had carried him away, or that the Giant had found him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Giant's mother | Giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | Giant *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 3 | **weep** | past | mother | the house *not said here* |  |  |  | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **carry away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fairies |  |  |  | away *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Giant |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |

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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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