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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 72

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So, without reply to the nymphs, he rushed forward instantly, breaking their garlands, and scattering them in all directions; and then went on without further hindrance to the little wood where he had seen Bellissima.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** rush, break, scatter, go on, see · **To what, where:** garlands, directions, Bellissima

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (King), 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:pg503:7:72
# text = So, without reply to the nymphs, he rushed forward instantly, breaking their garlands, and scattering them in all directions; and then went on without further hindrance to the little wood where he had seen Bellissima.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | King |  |  |  |  | without reply to the nymphs; forward, instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | King *not said here* | Nymphs's garlands |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garland=Patient |
| 3 | **scatter** | gerund | King *not said here* | garlands *= garland* |  | all directions |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Destination |
| 4 | **go on** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  | then | without further hindrance; to the little wood | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | King | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bellissima=Stimulus |

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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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