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title: The tailor, who had been watching the fight with amazement, was stil… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tailor, who had been watching the fight with amazement, was still standing motionless when the stag bounded up to him, and before he had time to escape forked him up with its great antlers, and set off at full gallop over hedges and ditches, hill and dale, through wood and water. Who acts: tailo
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 22

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The tailor, who had been watching the fight with amazement, was still standing motionless when the stag bounded up to him, and before he had time to escape forked him up with its great antlers, and set off at full gallop over hedges and ditches, hill and dale, through wood and water.

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**Who acts:** tailor, stag, standing · **What happens:** watch, stand, bound up, escape, fork up, set off · **To what, where:** fight, tailor, full gallop

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, stag, standing), 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:pg7277:45:22
# text = The tailor, who had been watching the fight with amazement, was still standing motionless when the stag bounded up to him, and before he had time to escape forked him up with its great antlers, and set off at full gallop over hedges and ditches, hill and dale, through wood and water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj:pass	_	_
16	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	forked	fork	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	through	through	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | the tailor | the fight |  |  |  | with amazement | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the tailor |  |  |  | still | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bound up** | participle | the stag |  | tailor |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fork up** | past · perfect | standing | tailor |  |  |  | with stag's great antlers | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **set off** | infinitive | standing *not said here* |  |  | full gallop |  | over hedges and ditches and hill and dale and wood and water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over hedge=Initial\_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 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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