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title: As he had set out intending to hunt in the surrounding forest he was… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he had set out intending to hunt in the surrounding forest he was quite simply dressed, and carried only a bow and arrows and a light spear; but even thus arrayed he looked graceful and distinguished. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 37

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As he had set out intending to hunt in the surrounding forest he was quite simply dressed, and carried only a bow and arrows and a light spear; but even thus arrayed he looked graceful and distinguished.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** set out, intend, hunt, dress, carry, array · **To what, where:** Prince, surrounding forest, bow

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg7277:14:37
# text = As he had set out intending to hunt in the surrounding forest he was quite simply dressed, and carried only a bow and arrows and a light spear; but even thus arrayed he looked graceful and distinguished.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past · perfect · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the surrounding forest |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
| 4 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | past |  | a bow and arrows and a light spear |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 6 | **array** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | graceful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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