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title: The hands hastened to meet him, and led the wooden horse off to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The hands hastened to meet him, and led the wooden horse off to the stable, while he hurried in to find the White Cat. Who acts: hands, turret. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 89

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The hands hastened to meet him, and led the wooden horse off to the stable, while he hurried in to find the White Cat.

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**Who acts:** hands, turret · **What happens:** hasten, meet, lead off, hurry in, find · **To what, where:** hands, turret, wooden horse, stable, White Cat

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, turret), 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:pg503:23:89
# text = The hands hastened to meet him, and led the wooden horse off to the stable, while he hurried in to find the White Cat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | the hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | turret |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **lead off** | past | the hands | the wooden horse |  | the stable |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=Destination |
| 4 | **hurry in** | past | turret |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | turret *not said here* | the White Cat |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |

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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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