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title: He sent to fetch Renelde, placed her by his bedside, and ordered her… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent to fetch Renelde, placed her by his bedside, and ordered her at once to go on spinning his shroud. Who acts: death. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 144

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He sent to fetch Renelde, placed her by his bedside, and ordered her at once to go on spinning his shroud.

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** send, fetch, place, order, go, spin · **To what, where:** Renelde, shroud

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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:pg540:42:144
# text = He sent to fetch Renelde, placed her by his bedside, and ordered her at once to go on spinning his shroud.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
20	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | death *not said here* | Renelde |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past | death *not said here* | Renelde |  |  |  | by death's bedside | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bedside=Destination |
| 4 | **order** | past |  |  | Renelde |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spin** | gerund |  | death's shroud |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shroud=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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