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title: When the youth saw that, he was not long in getting down from the tr… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the youth saw that, he was not long in getting down from the tree and flinging the bridle over the horse’s head, and then he became so tame that he might have been led by a thin string. Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim, thin string. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 12

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When the youth saw that, he was not long in getting down from the tree and flinging the bridle over the horse’s head, and then he became so tame that he might have been led by a thin string.

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**Who acts:** youth, Dapplegrim, thin string · **What happens:** see, not be, get down, fling, become, lead · **To what, where:** tree, bridle, head, Dapplegrim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Dapplegrim, thin string), 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:pg540:39:12
# text = When the youth saw that, he was not long in getting down from the tree and flinging the bridle over the horse’s head, and then he became so tame that he might have been led by a thin string.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get down** | gerund | Dapplegrim *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fling** | gerund | Dapplegrim *not said here* | the bridle |  | the horse's head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme over head=Destination |
| 5 | **become** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  | then | tame *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lead** | might · perfect · passive | a thin string | Dapplegrim |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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