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title: The others sprang up the rock, but as they reached the top the sword… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The others sprang up the rock, but as they reached the top the sword of Rosald swung round, and one man after another rolled down into the valley. Who acts: others, sword. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 99

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The others sprang up the rock, but as they reached the top the sword of Rosald swung round, and one man after another rolled down into the valley.

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**Who acts:** others, sword · **What happens:** spring up, reach, swing, roll down · **To what, where:** rock, top, one man, valley

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, sword), 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:pg3282:12:99
# text = The others sprang up the rock, but as they reached the top the sword of Rosald swung round, and one man after another rolled down into the valley.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	_
26	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | past | the others | the rock |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | others *= other* | the top |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 3 | **swing** | past | the sword of Rosald |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **roll down** | participle · passive |  | one man after another |  | the valley |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into valley=Trajectory |

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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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