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title: The Sun-Hero chased them away once more, but he had hardly sat down… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun-Hero chased them away once more, but he had hardly sat down to rest when the two black wolves were on the scene again. Who acts: Sun Hero, castle, two black wolves. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 27

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The Sun-Hero chased them away once more, but he had hardly sat down to rest when the two black wolves were on the scene again.

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**Who acts:** Sun Hero, castle, two black wolves · **What happens:** chase away, sit down, rest, be · **To what, where:** wolves, scene

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun Hero, castle, two black wolves), 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:pg640:38:27
# text = The Sun-Hero chased them away once more, but he had hardly sat down to rest when the two black wolves were on the scene again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | past | the Sun Hero | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past · perfect | castle |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | castle *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the two black wolves |  |  | the scene |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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