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title: The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, ‘In the hollow tr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a wonderful animal that we don’t know, and we have never seen one like it; its skin is made of a thousand pieces of fur; but it is lying down asleep.’ Who acts: huntsmen, we, skin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 25

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The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a wonderful animal that we don’t know, and we have never seen one like it; its skin is made of a thousand pieces of fur; but it is lying down asleep.’

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, we, skin · **What happens:** go in, come back, say, lie, not know, not see · **To what, where:** wonderful animal, hollow tree, one, skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, we, skin), 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:pg7277:42:25
# text = The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a wonderful animal that we don’t know, and we have never seen one like it; its skin is made of a thousand pieces of fur; but it is lying down asleep.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
53	down	down	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | the huntsmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  | a wonderful animal |  | the hollow tree; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | we | a wonderful animal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | we | one |  |  |  | like tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 7 | **make** | present · passive |  | tree's skin |  |  |  | of thousand pieces of fur | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 8 | **lie down** | present · progressive | skin |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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