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title: When his father had gone, a robber passed by and saw the horse grazi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When his father had gone, a robber passed by and saw the horse grazing without any one watching it, for of course he could not see the Hazel-nut child hidden in the grass. Who acts: father, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29), with its dependency tree 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 29

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When his father had gone, a robber passed by and saw the horse grazing without any one watching it, for of course he could not see the Hazel-nut child hidden in the grass.

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**Who acts:** father, one · **What happens:** go, pass by, see, watch, not see, hide · **To what, where:** robber, horse grazing, grazing, Hazel nut child, grass

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, one), 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:pg640:40:29
# text = When his father had gone, a robber passed by and saw the horse grazing without any one watching it, for of course he could not see the Hazel-nut child hidden in the grass.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | father's father | a robber |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass by** | participle |  | a robber *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | father's father *not said here* | the horse grazing |  |  |  | without any one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grazing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | any one *not said here* | grazing |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **see** | could | father | the Hazel nut child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hide** | participle |  | the Hazel nut child *not said here* |  | the grass |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |

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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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