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title: At that same moment Halvor entered, and the girls were so astonished… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At that same moment Halvor entered, and the girls were so astonished that they left their kirtles lying in the chimney corner, and ran away in nothing but their petticoats. Who acts: Halvor, girls, kirtles. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 102

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At that same moment Halvor entered, and the girls were so astonished that they left their kirtles lying in the chimney corner, and ran away in nothing but their petticoats.

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**Who acts:** Halvor, girls, kirtles · **What happens:** enter, be, leave, lie, run away · **To what, where:** kirtles, chimney corner, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, girls, kirtles), 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:pg540:6:102
# text = At that same moment Halvor entered, and the girls were so astonished that they left their kirtles lying in the chimney corner, and ran away in nothing but their petticoats.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kirtles	kirtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obl	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Halvor |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the girls |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | girls *= girl* | girls's kirtles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kirtle=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | girls's kirtles *not said here* |  |  | the chimney corner |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 5 | **run away** | past | Halvor *not said here* |  |  | nothing |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nothing=Trajectory |

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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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