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title: But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, he lost no time in creeping down from the tree. Who acts: Ritter, danger. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 28

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But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, he lost no time in creeping down from the tree.

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**Who acts:** Ritter, danger · **What happens:** see, be, lose, creep down · **To what, where:** tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, danger), 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:pg540:45:28
# text = But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, he lost no time in creeping down from the tree.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
13	afoot	afoot	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ritter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | any danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | danger |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **creep down** | gerund | danger *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |

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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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