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title: The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband. Who acts: Giantess, little brown hen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 5

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The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband.

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**Who acts:** Giantess, little brown hen · **What happens:** go away, return, place · **To what, where:** table

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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 (Giantess, little brown hen), 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:pg540:17:5
# text = The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | the Giantess |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | participle | the Giantess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a little brown hen; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past | a little brown hen |  |  | the table | before Giantess's husband |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on table=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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