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title: With one bound he caught up his mantle, and rushed headlong down the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With one bound he caught up his mantle, and rushed headlong down the path he had come, fearing at each step to feel a hand laid on his shoulder. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 129

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With one bound he caught up his mantle, and rushed headlong down the path he had come, fearing at each step to feel a hand laid on his shoulder.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** catch up, rush, come, fear, feel, lay · **To what, where:** mantle, path, hand, shoulder

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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:pg3282:10:129
# text = With one bound he caught up his mantle, and rushed headlong down the path he had come, fearing at each step to feel a hand laid on his shoulder.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	headlong	headlong	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | past | moon | moon's mantle |  |  |  | with one bound | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past | moon *not said here* |  |  | the path |  | headlong *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | moon | the path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | gerund | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at each step | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive | moon *not said here* | a hand |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | participle |  | a hand *not said here* |  | moon's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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