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title: They found the poor imprisoned little Hare, and having set him free… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They found the poor imprisoned little Hare, and having set him free also, they all set out to look for their enemy. Who acts: pieces. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 60

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They found the poor imprisoned little Hare, and having set him free also, they all set out to look for their enemy.

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**Who acts:** pieces · **What happens:** find, have, set, set out, look · **To what, where:** poor imprisoned little Hare, hare

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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:pg540:50:60
# text = They found the poor imprisoned little Hare, and having set him free also, they all set out to look for their enemy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	imprisoned	imprisoned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	reparandum	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | pieces *= piece* | the poor imprisoned little Hare |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past | pieces *= piece* *not said here* | hare |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
| 4 | **set out** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for pieces's enemy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for enemy=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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