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title: So they went forth into the wood, and shot hares and roe-deer, birds… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went forth into the wood, and shot hares and roe-deer, birds and wood-pigeons, and any other game they came across. Who acts: hands, other game. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 24

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So they went forth into the wood, and shot hares and roe-deer, birds and wood-pigeons, and any other game they came across.

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**Who acts:** hands, other game · **What happens:** go, shoot, come · **To what, where:** wood, hares

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, other game), 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:pg540:41:24
# text = So they went forth into the wood, and shot hares and roe-deer, birds and wood-pigeons, and any other game they came across.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	roe	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	across	across	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | the wood |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* | hares and roe deer and birds and wood pigeons |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | any other game |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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