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title: Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away wi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away with it; but as he jumped over the threshold the harp called out: Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 22

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Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away with it; but as he jumped over the threshold the harp called out:

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** enter, seize, run away, jump, call out · **To what, where:** Giant room, harp, threshold

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg540:19:22
# text = Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away with it; but as he jumped over the threshold the harp called out:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Jack | the Giant room |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Jack *not said here* | the harp |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme |
| 3 | **run away** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with harp; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material |
| 4 | **jump** | past | Jack | the harp |  | the threshold |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory |
| 5 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the harp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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