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title: And when they went back again the coach went quicker still, so that… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they went back again the coach went quicker still, so that most of them did not know how they got back to the palace at all. Who acts: brother, coach, most. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 17

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And when they went back again the coach went quicker still, so that most of them did not know how they got back to the palace at all.

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**Who acts:** brother, coach, most · **What happens:** go back, go, not know, get back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, coach, most), 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:pg503:19:17
# text = And when they went back again the coach went quicker still, so that most of them did not know how they got back to the palace at all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | brother |  |  |  | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the coach |  |  |  | still |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | most of brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get back** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | to the palace at all *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |

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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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