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title: When the man came with the ox and saw the shoe, he was quite vexed a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the man came with the ox and saw the shoe, he was quite vexed at having been so stupid as to leave the fellow to it lying where it was, instead of bringing it on with him. Who acts: man, shoe. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 43

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When the man came with the ox and saw the shoe, he was quite vexed at having been so stupid as to leave the fellow to it lying where it was, instead of bringing it on with him.

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**Who acts:** man, shoe · **What happens:** come, see, vex, be, leave, lie · **To what, where:** shoe, man, fellow

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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 (man, shoe), 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:pg540:9:43
# text = When the man came with the ox and saw the shoe, he was quite vexed at having been so stupid as to leave the fellow to it lying where it was, instead of bringing it on with him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | with the ox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | the shoe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus |
| 3 | **vex** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the fellow | shoe |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme to it=Recipient |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** | past | shoe |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bring on** | gerund |  | shoe |  |  |  | with fellow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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