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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 74

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Going back to the flag which had been stuck into the sand to mark the starting place, he ran forward, with his head well thrown back, and cleared the boat with a mighty bound.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** go back, stick, mark, run, throw back, clear · **To what, where:** flag, sand, starting place, head, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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:pg3027:36:74
# text = Going back to the flag which had been stuck into the sand to mark the starting place, he ran forward, with his head well thrown back, and cleared the boat with a mighty bound.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | gerund | stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the flag *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to flag=Result |
| 2 | **stick** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flag |  | the sand |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into sand=Destination |
| 3 | **mark** | to-infinitive |  | the starting place |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Destination |
| 4 | **run** | past | stranger |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **throw back** | participle · passive |  | stranger's head |  |  |  | well *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **clear** | past | stranger *not said here* | the boat |  |  |  | with a mighty bound | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product with bound=Material |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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