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title: He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi. Who acts: horse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 219

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He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi.

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**Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** be, send, bring back · **To what, where:** lords, Zizi

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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:pg540:40:219
# text = He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | always, full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | the lords and ladies *not said here* |  |  |  | by Tubby | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive |  |  | Zizi |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument zizi=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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