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title: Very soon afterwards, however, the youth let slip the third hare, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon afterwards, however, the youth let slip the third hare, and it set off and ran round and round the courtyard. Who acts: youth, kitchen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 119

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Very soon afterwards, however, the youth let slip the third hare, and it set off and ran round and round the courtyard.

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**Who acts:** youth, kitchen · **What happens:** let, slip, set off, run, round · **To what, where:** third hare, courtyard

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, kitchen), 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:pg540:9:119
# text = Very soon afterwards, however, the youth let slip the third hare, and it set off and ran round and round the courtyard.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | afterwards, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip** | infinitive | the youth *not said here* | the third hare |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hare=Patient |
| 3 | **set off** | past | kitchen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | kitchen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **round** | infinitive | kitchen *not said here* | the courtyard |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent courtyard=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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