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title: In another instant his dog dashed by in hot pursuit, and knocked hea… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In another instant his dog dashed by in hot pursuit, and knocked heavily against his master’s legs. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 39

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In another instant his dog dashed by in hot pursuit, and knocked heavily against his master’s legs.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** dash, knock · **To what, where:** instant, legs

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg3282:26:39
# text = In another instant his dog dashed by in hot pursuit, and knocked heavily against his master’s legs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | participle | prince's dog |  |  | another instant |  | by hot pursuit | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory |
| 2 | **knock** | past | prince's dog *not said here* |  |  | prince's master's legs |  | heavily *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leg=Location |

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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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