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title: Then the bed sped on as if drawn by six horses, over thresholds and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the bed sped on as if drawn by six horses, over thresholds and stairs, up this way and down that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 111

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Then the bed sped on as if drawn by six horses, over thresholds and stairs, up this way and down that.

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**What happens:** speed on, draw · **To what, where:** bed, thresholds

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:13:111
# text = Then the bed sped on as if drawn by six horses, over thresholds and stairs, up this way and down that.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thresholds	threshold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	compound	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed on** | participle · passive |  | the bed |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  | thresholds and stairs |  | by six horses; up this way | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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