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title: When he had got some distance he had to go into an inn to get some m… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had got some distance he had to go into an inn to get some more brandy; so he set a barrel full of red-hot nails under his horse’s nose, and a trough filled with oats beneath its tail, and then he tied the halter fast to a hook and went away into the inn. Who acts: Farmer, distance, trough. 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 119

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When he had got some distance he had to go into an inn to get some more brandy; so he set a barrel full of red-hot nails under his horse’s nose, and a trough filled with oats beneath its tail, and then he tied the halter fast to a hook and went away into the inn.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, distance, trough · **What happens:** get, have, go, set, fill, tie · **To what, where:** distance, inn, more brandy, barrel, halter

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, distance, trough), 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:pg540:43:119
# text = When he had got some distance he had to go into an inn to get some more brandy; so he set a barrel full of red-hot nails under his horse’s nose, and a trough filled with oats beneath its tail, and then he tied the halter fast to a hook and went away into the inn.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
59	away	away	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Farmer | some distance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Farmer | some distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | some distance *not said here* |  |  | a inn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | some distance *not said here* | some more brandy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brandy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set** | past | Farmer | a barrel |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient barrel=Result |
| 6 | **fill** | participle | a trough |  |  |  |  | with oats beneath trough's tail | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oat=Instrument |
| 7 | **tie** | past | Farmer | the halter |  |  | then | to a hook; fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent halter=Patient to hook=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **go away** | past | Farmer *not said here* |  |  | the inn |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial\_Location |

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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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