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title: The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed wit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed with a dagger, rushed out of an alley straight towards the king. Who acts: procession. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 98

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The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed with a dagger, rushed out of an alley straight towards the king.

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**Who acts:** procession · **What happens:** march on, rush out · **To what, where:** man, alley

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession), 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:pg3282:33:98
# text = The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed with a dagger, rushed out of an alley straight towards the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	marching	march	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march on** | past · progressive | the procession | a man |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush out** | participle | the procession *not said here* | a alley |  |  |  | towards the king | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent alley=Theme towards king=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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