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title: At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby e… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre. Who acts: Tubby. 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 276

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At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.

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**Who acts:** Tubby · **What happens:** catch, enter, wave · **To what, where:** length, kitchen, sceptre

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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 (Tubby), 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:pg540:40:276
# text = At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past |  | length |  | length | moment |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at length=Asset |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Tubby | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund |  | cook's sceptre |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Patient |

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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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