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title: And now he had to relate everything that had befallen him, and the o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now he had to relate everything that had befallen him, and the old woman was so delighted with him that she would take him up to the farm at once to show him to the girls who had formerly looked down on him so. Who acts: Halvor, old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 97

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And now he had to relate everything that had befallen him, and the old woman was so delighted with him that she would take him up to the farm at once to show him to the girls who had formerly looked down on him so.

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**Who acts:** Halvor, old woman, woman · **What happens:** have, relate, befall, be, take up, show · **To what, where:** everything, Halvor, farm, girls

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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, old woman, woman), 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:pg540:6:97
# text = And now he had to relate everything that had befallen him, and the old woman was so delighted with him that she would take him up to the farm at once to show him to the girls who had formerly looked down on him so.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Halvor |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **relate** | to-infinitive | Halvor *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 3 | **befall** | past · perfect |  | Halvor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | with Halvor; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take up** | would | woman | Halvor |  | the farm |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to farm=Destination |
| 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  | Halvor |  |  | to the girls | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to girl=Recipient |
| 7 | **look down** | past · perfect · passive |  | the girls |  |  |  | on Halvor; formerly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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