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title: They ran forward, and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They ran forward, and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on their old friend the dwarf, and was about to carry him off. Who acts: boulders, old friend. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 76

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They ran forward, and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on their old friend the dwarf, and was about to carry him off.

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**Who acts:** boulders, old friend · **What happens:** run, see, pounce, be, carry off · **To what, where:** eagle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boulders, old friend), 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:pg503:36:76
# text = They ran forward, and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on their old friend the dwarf, and was about to carry him off.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | boulders *= boulder* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | boulders *= boulder* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pounce** | past · perfect · passive | boulders's old friend | the eagle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry off** | to-infinitive |  | eagle |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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