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title: About one hundred and fifty years after the event, when there was no… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: About one hundred and fifty years after the event, when there was no longer one left of the fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters of that day, there arrived one evening in Hamel some merchants of Bremen returning from the East, who asked to speak with the citizens. Who acts: merchants, East. A sente
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 95

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About one hundred and fifty years after the event, when there was no longer one left of the fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters of that day, there arrived one evening in Hamel some merchants of Bremen returning from the East, who asked to speak with the citizens.

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**Who acts:** merchants, East · **What happens:** leave, arrive, return, ask, speak · **To what, where:** Hamel, East · **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 (merchants, East), 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:pg540:32:95
# text = About one hundred and fifty years after the event, when there was no longer one left of the fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters of that day, there arrived one evening in Hamel some merchants of Bremen returning from the East, who asked to speak with the citizens.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of the fathers and mothers and brothers or sisters of that day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of father=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | Hamel; there | evening; year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | some merchants of Bremen *not said here* |  |  | the East |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the East |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the East *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the citizens | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with citizen=Co-Agent |

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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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