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title: The rest of them thought that she ought not to stay, but while they… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of them thought that she ought not to stay, but while they were disputing about this and looking after the horses, she crept farther and farther into the stable, and at last sat down behind the door, and when once she was inside no one took any more notice of her. Who acts: rest, horses, on
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 176

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The rest of them thought that she ought not to stay, but while they were disputing about this and looking after the horses, she crept farther and farther into the stable, and at last sat down behind the door, and when once she was inside no one took any more notice of her.

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**Who acts:** rest, horses, one · **What happens:** think, not stay, dispute, look, creep, sit down · **To what, where:** stable, last, more notice, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rest, horses, one), 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:pg540:9:176
# text = The rest of them thought that she ought not to stay, but while they were disputing about this and looking after the horses, she crept farther and farther into the stable, and at last sat down behind the door, and when once she was inside no one took any more notice of her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	disputing	dispute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obl	_	_
38	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
46	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	51	det	_	_
51	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
53	any	any	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	55	amod	_	_
55	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the rest of horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stay** | ought | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dispute** | past · progressive | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | about this | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about this=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | horses *= horse* *not said here* |  |  |  | after the horses |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **creep** | past | rest |  |  | the stable |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stable=Destination |
| 6 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | last |  | behind the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 7 | **is** | past | rest |  |  |  |  | inside no one | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | past | no one | more notice of rest |  |  |  | any *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 9 | **notice** |  |  | rest |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication 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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