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title: Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body of the Giantess at the foot of the stairs. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 23

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Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body of the Giantess at the foot of the stairs.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see, leave, find · **To what, where:** Nobody, hall, body, foot

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg540:21:23
# text = Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body of the Giantess at the foot of the stairs.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | people *not said here* | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | people | the body of the Giantess |  | the foot of the stairs |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent body=Theme at foot=Asset |

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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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