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title: But when the woman heard that, and found that the man did not at all… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the woman heard that, and found that the man did not at all know either when their son would be out of his apprentice-ship, or where he had gone, she packed him off again to find out, and gave him a bag of food and a roll of tobacco to take away with him. Who acts: woman, man, son. A senten
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 22

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But when the woman heard that, and found that the man did not at all know either when their son would be out of his apprentice-ship, or where he had gone, she packed him off again to find out, and gave him a bag of food and a roll of tobacco to take away with him.

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**Who acts:** woman, man, son · **What happens:** hear, find, know, be, not go, pack off · **To what, where:** apprentice ship, son, bag, tobacco · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, man, son), 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:pg540:43:22
# text = But when the woman heard that, and found that the man did not at all know either when their son would be out of his apprentice-ship, or where he had gone, she packed him off again to find out, and gave him a bag of food and a roll of tobacco to take away with him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
18	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc:preconj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	packed	pack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	iobj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
60	away	away	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | would | man's son |  |  | son's apprentice ship |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · perfect · do-support | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pack off** | past | woman |  | son |  | again |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 7 | **find out** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **give** | past |  | a bag of food and a roll of tobacco | son |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bag=Theme |
| 9 | **take away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **roll** |  |  | tobacco |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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