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title: So this was done, and they hid in a wood, but there some strangers m… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So this was done, and they hid in a wood, but there some strangers met them and carried them off in a ship to Denmark. Who acts: clothes, strangers. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 13

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So this was done, and they hid in a wood, but there some strangers met them and carried them off in a ship to Denmark.

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**Who acts:** clothes, strangers · **What happens:** do, hide, meet, carry off · **To what, where:** this, wood, clothes, ship

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, strangers), 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:pg540:51:13
# text = So this was done, and they hid in a wood, but there some strangers met them and carried them off in a ship to Denmark.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hide** | past | clothes |  |  | a wood |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | some strangers | clothes |  | there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **carry off** | past | some strangers *not said here* | clothes |  | a ship to Denmark |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in ship=Location |

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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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