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title: When they got to the trunk, the eldest foal broke it down on one sid… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they got to the trunk, the eldest foal broke it down on one side, and then they saw a door where the trunk had been standing, and inside this there was a small room, and in the room there was scarcely anything but a small fire-place and a couple of benches, but behind the door hung a great rust
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 78

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When they got to the trunk, the eldest foal broke it down on one side, and then they saw a door where the trunk had been standing, and inside this there was a small room, and in the room there was scarcely anything but a small fire-place and a couple of benches, but behind the door hung a great rusty sword and a small pitcher.

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**Who acts:** foals, eldest foal, trunk, this · **What happens:** get, break down, see, stand, be, hang · **To what, where:** trunk, one side, door, small room, great rusty sword

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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 (foals, eldest foal, trunk, this), 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:pg540:49:78
# text = When they got to the trunk, the eldest foal broke it down on one side, and then they saw a door where the trunk had been standing, and inside this there was a small room, and in the room there was scarcely anything but a small fire-place and a couple of benches, but behind the door hung a great rusty sword and a small pitcher.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	45	nsubj	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	_
64	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
67	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | foals *= foal* |  |  |  |  | to the trunk *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to trunk=Result |
| 2 | **break down** | past | the eldest foal | trunk |  | one side |  | in the room | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | foals *= foal* | a door |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | past · perfect · progressive | the trunk |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this | a small room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hang** | past |  | a great rusty sword and a small pitcher |  | the door |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme behind door=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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