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title: When the Master Thief got there the mare went along so slowly and qu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Master Thief got there the mare went along so slowly and quietly that the cart hardly seemed to move from the spot. Who acts: Master Thief, mare, cart. 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 208

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When the Master Thief got there the mare went along so slowly and quietly that the cart hardly seemed to move from the spot.

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**Who acts:** Master Thief, mare, cart · **What happens:** get, go along, seem, move · **To what, where:** spot

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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 (Master Thief, mare, cart), 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:pg540:9:208
# text = When the Master Thief got there the mare went along so slowly and quietly that the cart hardly seemed to move from the spot.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Master Thief |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go along** | past | the mare |  |  |  |  | along, slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the cart |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **move** | to-infinitive | the cart *not said here* |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory |

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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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