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title: After a long, long time he came to a small hut at the foot of a rock… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long, long time he came to a small hut at the foot of a rock, outside which an old woman was standing drawing water up from a well with her nose, it was so long. Who acts: son, old woman, water. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 24

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After a long, long time he came to a small hut at the foot of a rock, outside which an old woman was standing drawing water up from a well with her nose, it was so long.

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**Who acts:** son, old woman, water · **What happens:** come, stand, draw up, be · **To what, where:** small hut, water, nose

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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 (son, old woman, water), 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:pg540:43:24
# text = After a long, long time he came to a small hut at the foot of a rock, outside which an old woman was standing drawing water up from a well with her nose, it was so long.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
27	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | son |  |  | a small hut at the foot of a rock | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | a old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside which=Location |
| 3 | **draw up** | gerund | a old woman *not said here* | water |  | woman's nose |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from nose=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | water |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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