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title: Then he engaged eleven men to lie that night in hiding behind the Go… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he engaged eleven men to lie that night in hiding behind the Governor’s stable. Who acts: Governor. 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 163

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Then he engaged eleven men to lie that night in hiding behind the Governor’s stable.

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**Who acts:** Governor · **What happens:** engage, lie, hide · **To what, where:** eleven men, stable

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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 (Governor), 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:pg540:9:163
# text = Then he engaged eleven men to lie that night in hiding behind the Governor’s stable.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past | Governor | eleven men |  |  | then |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **lie** | to-infinitive | Governor *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund | Governor *not said here* |  |  | the Governor's stable |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stable=Location |

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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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