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title: They at once fetched their comrades, and brought the spoil triumphan… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They at once fetched their comrades, and brought the spoil triumphantly into the camp, and, as it consisted principally of biscuits, not a spaniel among them went supperless to sleep. Who acts: Princes, camp, biscuits. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with i
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 31

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They at once fetched their comrades, and brought the spoil triumphantly into the camp, and, as it consisted principally of biscuits, not a spaniel among them went supperless to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Princes, camp, biscuits · **What happens:** fetch, bring, consist, go, sleep · **To what, where:** comrades, spoil, camp

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, camp, biscuits), 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:pg7277:17:31
# text = They at once fetched their comrades, and brought the spoil triumphantly into the camp, and, as it consisted principally of biscuits, not a spaniel among them went supperless to sleep.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
32	supperless	supperless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | past | Princes *= prince* | Princes's comrades |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent comrade=Theme at once=Asset |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Princes *= prince* *not said here* | the spoil |  | the camp |  | triumphantly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme into camp=Destination |
| 3 | **consist** | past | camp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | biscuits |  |  |  |  | supperless *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | biscuits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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