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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 24

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Then the King knew how his watching had been done, and fell into such a rage that he ordered his people to chase the youth back to his own home at once; but first they were to cut three red stripes in his back, and rub salt into them.

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**Who acts:** King, watching, people · **What happens:** know, watch, do, fall, order, chase back · **To what, where:** rage, people, youth, own home, three red stripes, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King, watching, people), 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:pg540:49:24
# text = Then the King knew how his watching had been done, and fell into such a rage that he ordered his people to chase the youth back to his own home at once; but first they were to cut three red stripes in his back, and rub salt into them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
42	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
50	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the King |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect · passive | watching |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into such rage *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result |
| 5 | **order** | past | King |  | King's people |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **chase back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the youth |  | King's own home |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to home=Trajectory |
| 7 | **cut** | past | people | three red stripes |  | King's back |  | first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stripe=Product |
| 8 | **rub** | infinitive | the King *not said here* | salt |  |  |  | into people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into they=Destination |

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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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