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title: So there was the Wolf with his throat burnt, jumping off the bed and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was the Wolf with his throat burnt, jumping off the bed and trying to find the door, howling and howling as if all the dogs in the country were at his heels. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood, with its dependency tree a
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 71

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So there was the Wolf with his throat burnt, jumping off the bed and trying to find the door, howling and howling as if all the dogs in the country were at his heels.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** be, jump off, try, find, howl · **To what, where:** bed, door

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs), 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:pg540:33:71
# text = So there was the Wolf with his throat burnt, jumping off the bed and trying to find the door, howling and howling as if all the dogs in the country were at his heels.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump off** | gerund |  | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
| 5 | **howl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **howl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | all dogs in the country |  |  |  |  | as story's heels | 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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