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title: As soon as she caught sight of the youth, who was running after the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she caught sight of the youth, who was running after the foals till the perspiration streamed down his face, she cried: Who acts: woman, sight, perspiration. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 12

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As soon as she caught sight of the youth, who was running after the foals till the perspiration streamed down his face, she cried:

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**Who acts:** woman, sight, perspiration · **What happens:** catch, run, stream down, cry, sight · **To what, where:** sight, face, youth

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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 (woman, sight, perspiration), 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:pg540:49:12
# text = As soon as she caught sight of the youth, who was running after the foals till the perspiration streamed down his face, she cried:
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
6	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | woman | sight of the youth |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past · progressive | sight of the youth |  |  |  | after the foals till the perspiration |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stream down** | participle | the perspiration *not said here* | wood's face |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | woman |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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