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title: When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, and suddenly, springing goodness knows whence, there hung across the river, high in the air, a splendid bridge. Who acts: Prince, springing goodness. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Ko
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 254

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When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, and suddenly, springing goodness knows whence, there hung across the river, high in the air, a splendid bridge.

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**Who acts:** Prince, springing goodness · **What happens:** come, wave, spring, know, hang · **To what, where:** river, handkerchief, right hand

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, springing goodness), 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:pg540:7:254
# text = When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, and suddenly, springing goodness knows whence, there hung across the river, high in the air, a splendid bridge.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Prince |  |  | that river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wave** | past | Prince | the handkerchief |  | the right hand | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient |
| 3 | **spring** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | springing goodness |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hang** | participle | springing goodness *not said here* |  |  | the river and a splendid bridge; there |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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