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title: He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a long rat-tail moustache, two great yellow piercing and mocking eyes, under a large felt hat set off by a scarlet cock’s feather. Who acts: horde, two. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its depe
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 11

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He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a long rat-tail moustache, two great yellow piercing and mocking eyes, under a large felt hat set off by a scarlet cock’s feather.

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**Who acts:** horde, two · **What happens:** be, bronze, piercing, mock, set off · **To what, where:** great gawky fellow, eyes, large felt hat

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horde, two), 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:pg540:32:11
# text = He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a long rat-tail moustache, two great yellow piercing and mocking eyes, under a large felt hat set off by a scarlet cock’s feather.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	gawky	gawky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bronzed	bronze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	moustache	moustache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | horde | a great gawky fellow and a long tail moustache and a large felt hat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bronze** | participle | horde *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a crooked nose | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nose=Theme |
| 3 | **piercing** |  | two |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mock** | gerund | two *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 5 | **set off** | participle |  | a large felt hat *not said here* |  |  |  | by a scarlet cock's feather | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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