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title: He added that the inhabitants should at that hour leave the streets… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He added that the inhabitants should at that hour leave the streets free, and content themselves with looking out of their windows at what was passing, and that it would be a pleasant spectacle. Who acts: moon, inhabitants, window. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, w
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 31

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He added that the inhabitants should at that hour leave the streets free, and content themselves with looking out of their windows at what was passing, and that it would be a pleasant spectacle.

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**Who acts:** moon, inhabitants, window · **What happens:** add, leave, content, look out, pass, be · **To what, where:** streets, windows, pleasant spectacle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (moon, inhabitants, window), 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:pg540:32:31
# text = He added that the inhabitants should at that hour leave the streets free, and content themselves with looking out of their windows at what was passing, and that it would be a pleasant spectacle.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	content	content	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | should | the inhabitants | the streets |  |  | hour | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme |
| 3 | **content** | infinitive |  | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **look out** | gerund |  | inhabitants's windows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | would | window | a pleasant spectacle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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