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title: The wind wizard’s son did this, and the raven flew so swiftly that i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind wizard’s son did this, and the raven flew so swiftly that it reached the hut that same evening. Who acts: son, raven, speech. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 36

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The wind wizard’s son did this, and the raven flew so swiftly that it reached the hut that same evening.

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**Who acts:** son, raven, speech · **What happens:** do, fly, reach · **To what, where:** this, hut

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, raven, speech), 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:pg503:26:36
# text = The wind wizard’s son did this, and the raven flew so swiftly that it reached the hut that same evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the wind wizard's son | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the raven |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | speech | the hut |  |  | evening |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme |

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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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