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title: Accordingly, in the dead hour of the night, the King’s three sons an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, in the dead hour of the night, the King’s three sons and the Thief of Sloan attempted the Steed of Bells in order to carry him away, but before they could reach the stables the steed neighed most terribly and shook himself so, and the bells rung with such noise, that the knight and all 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 56

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Accordingly, in the dead hour of the night, the King’s three sons and the Thief of Sloan attempted the Steed of Bells in order to carry him away, but before they could reach the stables the steed neighed most terribly and shook himself so, and the bells rung with such noise, that the knight and all his men were up in a moment.

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**Who acts:** three sons, sons, bells, knight · **What happens:** attempt, carry away, reach, neigh, shake, rung · **To what, where:** Steed, order, Thief, stables

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sons, sons, bells, knight), 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:pg540:8:56
# text = Accordingly, in the dead hour of the night, the King’s three sons and the Thief of Sloan attempted the Steed of Bells in order to carry him away, but before they could reach the stables the steed neighed most terribly and shook himself so, and the bells rung with such noise, that the knight and all his men were up in a moment.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
43	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	44	advmod	_	_
44	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
47	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	rung	rung	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	64	det:predet	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
65	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
66	up	up	ADP	RP	_	65	compound:prt	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | the King's three sons and the Thief of Sloan | the Steed of Bells |  | order |  | accordingly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **carry away** | to-infinitive | the King's three sons and the Thief of Sloan *not said here* | Thief |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | could | sons *= son* | the stables |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent stable=Beneficiary steed=Theme |
| 4 | **neigh** | past |  |  |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shake** | past |  | Thief |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 6 | **rung** | present | the bells |  |  |  |  | with such noise | tree rules |
| 7 | **be up** | past | the knight and Thief's men |  |  |  | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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