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title: Then he leaped in the air to try the Shoes of Swiftness, and they ca… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he leaped in the air to try the Shoes of Swiftness, and they carried him more swiftly than the wind, over the warm blue sea, over the happy lands of the south, over the northern peoples who drank mare’s milk and lived in great wagons, wandering after their flocks. Who acts: boy, shoes, northern
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 47

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Then he leaped in the air to try the Shoes of Swiftness, and they carried him more swiftly than the wind, over the warm blue sea, over the happy lands of the south, over the northern peoples who drank mare’s milk and lived in great wagons, wandering after their flocks.

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**Who acts:** boy, shoes, northern peoples · **What happens:** leap, try, carry, drink, live, wonder · **To what, where:** air, Shoes, boy, happy lands, milk, great wagons

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, shoes, northern peoples), 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:pg503:27:47
# text = Then he leaped in the air to try the Shoes of Swiftness, and they carried him more swiftly than the wind, over the warm blue sea, over the happy lands of the south, over the northern peoples who drank mare’s milk and lived in great wagons, wandering after their flocks.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
54	after	after	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | boy |  |  | the air | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the Shoes of Swiftness |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |
| 3 | **carry** | past | shoes *= shoe* | boy |  | the happy lands of the south |  | than the wind; over the northern peoples; swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | past | the northern peoples | mare's milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | past | the northern peoples *not said here* |  |  | great wagons |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wagon=Location |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the northern peoples *not said here* |  |  |  | after shoes's flocks |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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