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title: It led him to a little hut all woven together of reeds and rushes. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It led him to a little hut all woven together of reeds and rushes. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 8

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It led him to a little hut all woven together of reeds and rushes.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** lead, weave · **To what, where:** tailor, little hut

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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 (tree), 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:pg7277:45:8
# text = It led him to a little hut all woven together of reeds and rushes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | tree | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | participle | tree *not said here* |  |  | a little hut |  | of reeds and rushes; all, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |

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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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