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title: Then the stranger had begun to walk quickly, and they had followed,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the stranger had begun to walk quickly, and they had followed, running, singing and dancing to the sound of the music, as far as the foot of the mountain which one sees on entering Hamel. Who acts: stranger, one. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its depend
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 83

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Then the stranger had begun to walk quickly, and they had followed, running, singing and dancing to the sound of the music, as far as the foot of the mountain which one sees on entering Hamel.

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**Who acts:** stranger, one · **What happens:** begin, walk, follow, run, sing, dance · **To what, where:** boys, sound, foot, Hamel

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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 (stranger, one), 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:pg540:32:83
# text = Then the stranger had begun to walk quickly, and they had followed, running, singing and dancing to the sound of the music, as far as the foot of the mountain which one sees on entering Hamel.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
40	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · perfect | the stranger |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past · perfect · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as the foot of the mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | the sound of the music |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory |
| 7 | **see** | present | one | the foot of the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 8 | **enter** | gerund | one *not said here* |  | Hamel |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hamel=Destination |

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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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