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title: When the youth had run thus for a long time he began to be tired, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the youth had run thus for a long time he began to be tired, and when he had held on a little longer he was heartily weary of watching at all, and at the same moment he came to a cleft in a rock where an old woman was sitting spinning with her distaff in her hand. Who acts: wood, old woman. A s
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 11

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When the youth had run thus for a long time he began to be tired, and when he had held on a little longer he was heartily weary of watching at all, and at the same moment he came to a cleft in a rock where an old woman was sitting spinning with her distaff in her hand.

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**Who acts:** wood, old woman · **What happens:** run, begin, be, hold, watch, come · **To what, where:** youth, long time, all, cleft

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, old woman), 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:pg540:49:11
# text = When the youth had run thus for a long time he began to be tired, and when he had held on a little longer he was heartily weary of watching at all, and at the same moment he came to a cleft in a rock where an old woman was sitting spinning with her distaff in her hand.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	heartily	heartily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	53	advmod	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	acl:relcl	_	_
54	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	xcomp	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	distaff	distaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · perfect · passive |  | the youth |  |  | time | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | wood | a long time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | past · perfect | wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | wood |  |  |  |  | long, weary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **watch** | gerund | wood *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |
| 7 | **come** | past | wood |  |  | a cleft in a rock | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cleft=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **sit** | past · progressive | a old woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **spin** | gerund | a old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with woman's distaff in woman's hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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