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title: But all at once it came into his head to go home and get the other o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all at once it came into his head to go home and get the other ox, and drive it to the town, and take good care that his old wife knew nothing about it. Who acts: shoe, old wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 48

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But all at once it came into his head to go home and get the other ox, and drive it to the town, and take good care that his old wife knew nothing about it.

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**Who acts:** shoe, old wife · **What happens:** come, go, get, drive, take, know · **To what, where:** head, other ox, shoe, town, good care, nothing

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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 (shoe, old wife), 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:pg540:9:48
# text = But all at once it came into his head to go home and get the other ox, and drive it to the town, and take good care that his old wife knew nothing about it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obj	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | shoe |  |  | man's head |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | shoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | shoe *not said here* | the other ox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drive** | infinitive | shoe *not said here* | shoe |  | the town |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to town=Trajectory |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | shoe *not said here* | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **know** | past | man's old wife | nothing |  |  |  | about shoe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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