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title: As soon as it was dark twelve murderers arrived, with the full inten… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it was dark twelve murderers arrived, with the full intention of killing and robbing the strangers. Who acts: inn, dark twelve murderers, full intention. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 24

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As soon as it was dark twelve murderers arrived, with the full intention of killing and robbing the strangers.

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**Who acts:** inn, dark twelve murderers, full intention · **What happens:** be, arrive, kill, rob · **To what, where:** strangers

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inn, dark twelve murderers, full intention), 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:pg7277:47:24
# text = As soon as it was dark twelve murderers arrived, with the full intention of killing and robbing the strangers.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | inn |  |  |  |  | as dark twelve murderers | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | dark twelve murderers |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | the full intention *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **rob** | gerund | the full intention *not said here* | the strangers |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Source |

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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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