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title: Oh, my gold and my silver and my best clothes!’ shrieked the Priest,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, my gold and my silver and my best clothes!’ shrieked the Priest, and, wild with rage, he ran home so fast that the goose-girl thought he had suddenly gone mad. Who acts: gold, Priest, girl thought. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 156

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Oh, my gold and my silver and my best clothes!’ shrieked the Priest, and, wild with rage, he ran home so fast that the goose-girl thought he had suddenly gone mad.

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**Who acts:** gold, Priest, girl thought · **What happens:** shriek, run, go · **To what, where:** Priest

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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 (gold, Priest, girl thought), 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:pg540:9:156
# text = Oh, my gold and my silver and my best clothes!’ shrieked the Priest, and, wild with rage, he ran home so fast that the goose-girl thought he had suddenly gone mad.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
39	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shriek** | past | my gold and my silver and my best clothes | the Priest |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location priest=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Priest |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the girl thought |  |  |  |  | mad, suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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