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title: In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased, and placed it on that of Drakestail, whom it fitted like wax. Who acts: acclamations. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 111

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In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased, and placed it on that of Drakestail, whom it fitted like wax.

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**Who acts:** acclamations · **What happens:** run, take, decease, place, fit · **To what, where:** short, crown, head, that

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acclamations), 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:pg540:31:111
# text = In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased, and placed it on that of Drakestail, whom it fitted like wax.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | acclamations *= acclamation* |  |  | short |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in short=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | past | acclamations *= acclamation* *not said here* | the crown |  | the head |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme off head=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **place** | past | acclamations *= acclamation* *not said here* | crown |  | that |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on that=Destination |
| 5 | **fit** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | like wax | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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