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title: ‘Quick! quick!’ cried the horse, and the king scrambled hastily thro… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Quick! quick!’ cried the horse, and the king scrambled hastily through the small window, and leapt into the saddle. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 28

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‘Quick! quick!’ cried the horse, and the king scrambled hastily through the small window, and leapt into the saddle.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** cry, scramble, leapt · **To what, where:** horse, small window, saddle

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg3454:9:28
# text = ‘Quick! quick!’ cried the horse, and the king scrambled hastily through the small window, and leapt into the saddle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leapt	leapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 2 | **scramble** | past | the king |  |  | the small window |  | hastily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leapt** | infinitive |  |  |  | the saddle |  |  | tree rules |

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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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