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title: He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the T… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the Troll to come, he climbed up into the tree again and hid himself. Who acts: Ritter, time. 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 59

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He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the Troll to come, he climbed up into the tree again and hid himself.

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**Who acts:** Ritter, time · **What happens:** lead down, draw, come, climb up, hide · **To what, where:** daughter, strand, tree, Ritter

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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, time), 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:pg540:45:59
# text = He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the Troll to come, he climbed up into the tree again and hid himself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
14	near	near	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead down** | past | Ritter | daughter |  | the strand |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to strand=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the time |  |  |  |  | for the Troll; near *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for troll=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **climb up** | past | Ritter |  |  | the tree | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
| 5 | **hide** | past | Ritter *not said here* | Ritter |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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