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title: When they were well out of the house, the first thing that he did wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were well out of the house, the first thing that he did was to drive the oxen out on the road, whereupon they all ran home again to the man from whom he had stolen them, and right glad was the husbandman to see them. Who acts: robbers, thing, first thing, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 80

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When they were well out of the house, the first thing that he did was to drive the oxen out on the road, whereupon they all ran home again to the man from whom he had stolen them, and right glad was the husbandman to see them.

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**Who acts:** robbers, thing, first thing, man, house · **What happens:** be, do, run, steal, see · **To what, where:** house, first thing, road, robbers, husbandman

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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 (robbers, thing, first thing, man), 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:pg540:9:80
# text = When they were well out of the house, the first thing that he did was to drive the oxen out on the road, whereupon they all ran home again to the man from whom he had stolen them, and right glad was the husbandman to see them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	oxen	oxen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  | the house |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | thing | the first thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the first thing |  |  | the road |  | drive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | again | to the man *result*; home, whereupon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result |
| 5 | **steal** | past · perfect | man | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 6 | **be** |  | robbers *= robber* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the house | the husbandman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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