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title: So he dressed hastily, and ran down a little secret staircase which… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he dressed hastily, and ran down a little secret staircase which led to the Chamber of Echoes. Who acts: King, little secret staircase. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 63

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So he dressed hastily, and ran down a little secret staircase which led to the Chamber of Echoes.

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**Who acts:** King, little secret staircase · **What happens:** dress, run down, lead · **To what, where:** little secret staircase

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (King, little secret staircase), 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:pg7277:5:63
# text = So he dressed hastily, and ran down a little secret staircase which led to the Chamber of Echoes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | King |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run down** | past | King *not said here* | a little secret staircase |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lead** | past | a little secret staircase |  |  |  |  | to the Chamber of Echoes | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=Patient |

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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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