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title: After some time had passed she noticed that every day he came riding… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After some time had passed she noticed that every day he came riding home from the forest he took off a blood-stained shirt and put on a clean one. Who acts: time, queen, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 79

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After some time had passed she noticed that every day he came riding home from the forest he took off a blood-stained shirt and put on a clean one.

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**Who acts:** time, queen, man · **What happens:** pass, notice, come, ride, take off, stain · **To what, where:** day, forest, stained shirt

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, queen, 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:pg5615:33:79
# text = After some time had passed she noticed that every day he came riding home from the forest he took off a blood-stained shirt and put on a clean one.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | some time |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | man | every day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | gerund | queen *not said here* |  |  | the forest | day | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from forest=Trajectory |
| 5 | **take off** | past | man | a stained shirt |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 6 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **put** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a clean one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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