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title: ‘I had not gone far,’ continued the Thief of Sloan, ‘until I saw a g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I had not gone far,’ continued the Thief of Sloan, ‘until I saw a grey-hound, a hare, and a hawk in pursuit of me, and began to think it must be the witches that had taken the shapes in order that I might not escape them unseen either by land or water. Who acts: I, hawk. A sentence of «The Red Fair
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 75

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‘I had not gone far,’ continued the Thief of Sloan, ‘until I saw a grey-hound, a hare, and a hawk in pursuit of me, and began to think it must be the witches that had taken the shapes in order that I might not escape them unseen either by land or water.

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**Who acts:** I, hawk · **What happens:** not go, continue, see, begin, think, be · **To what, where:** Thief, grey hound, witches, order, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, hawk), 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:pg540:8:75
# text = ‘I had not gone far,’ continued the Thief of Sloan, ‘until I saw a grey-hound, a hare, and a hawk in pursuit of me, and began to think it must be the witches that had taken the shapes in order that I might not escape them unseen either by land or water.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	ccomp	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
55	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	_
58	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc:preconj	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  | the Thief of Sloan |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thief=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | a grey hound |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus |
| 4 | **begin** | past | a hawk in pursuit of me |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a hawk in pursuit of me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | must | hawk | the witches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the witches |  | order |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shape=Destination |
| 8 | **not** **escape** | might | I | the witches |  |  |  | by land or water; unseen *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **pursue** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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