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title: At full speed did she fly in her iron mortar, urging it on with the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At full speed did she fly in her iron mortar, urging it on with the pestle, sweeping away her traces with the broom. Who acts: Baba. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 258

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At full speed did she fly in her iron mortar, urging it on with the pestle, sweeping away her traces with the broom.

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**Who acts:** Baba · **What happens:** fly, urge on, sweep away · **To what, where:** full speed, mortar, traces

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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 (Baba), 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:pg540:7:258
# text = At full speed did she fly in her iron mortar, urging it on with the pestle, sweeping away her traces with the broom.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · do-support | Baba |  |  | full speed |  | in Baba's iron mortar | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at speed=Location |
| 2 | **urge on** | gerund | Baba *not said here* | mortar |  |  |  | with the pestle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **sweep away** | gerund | Baba *not said here* | Baba's traces |  |  |  | with the broom; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Trajectory |

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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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