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description: It was still dark when the giant got up and went his way, and then the king and the queen ran forward to take up the threshold, while the horses looked on. Who acts: threshold, giant, king, horses. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 9

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It was still dark when the giant got up and went his way, and then the king and the queen ran forward to take up the threshold, while the horses looked on.

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**Who acts:** threshold, giant, king, horses · **What happens:** be, get up, go, run, take up, look on · **To what, where:** way, threshold

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (threshold, giant, king, horses), 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:pg3454:10:9
# text = It was still dark when the giant got up and went his way, and then the king and the queen ran forward to take up the threshold, while the horses looked on.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | threshold |  |  |  | still | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get up** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | the giant *not said here* | giant's way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the king and the queen |  |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take up** | to-infinitive | the king and the queen *not said here* | the threshold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Theme |
| 6 | **look on** | past | the horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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