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title: Then he stamped off, taking the Fairy with him, and leaving the poor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he stamped off, taking the Fairy with him, and leaving the poor Queen in tears. Who acts: battle. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 38

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Then he stamped off, taking the Fairy with him, and leaving the poor Queen in tears.

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**Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** stamp off, take, leave · **To what, where:** Fairy, poor Queen, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), 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:pg540:22:38
# text = Then he stamped off, taking the Fairy with him, and leaving the poor Queen in tears.
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	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp off** | past | battle |  |  |  | then |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | battle *not said here* |  | the Fairy |  |  | with battle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fairy=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | battle *not said here* | the poor Queen |  | tears |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in tear=Location |

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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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