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title: The young man held tight, and marvelled where they were going and ho… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man held tight, and marvelled where they were going and how long they were to travel, but for three days they rushed on, till at last the turtle stopped before a splendid palace, shining with gold and silver, crystal and precious stones, and decked here and there with branches of pale pink
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74

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The young man held tight, and marvelled where they were going and how long they were to travel, but for three days they rushed on, till at last the turtle stopped before a splendid palace, shining with gold and silver, crystal and precious stones, and decked here and there with branches of pale pink coral and glittering pearls.

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**Who acts:** young man, Uraschimataro · **What happens:** hold, marvell, go, travel, rush, stop · **To what, where:** young man, last turtle, pearls

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (young man, Uraschimataro), 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:pg5615:3:74
# text = The young man held tight, and marvelled where they were going and how long they were to travel, but for three days they rushed on, till at last the turtle stopped before a splendid palace, shining with gold and silver, crystal and precious stones, and decked here and there with branches of pale pink coral and glittering pearls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
53	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	conj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
60	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	_
64	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marvell** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | Uraschimataro |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **travel** | past | Uraschimataro |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rush** | past | Uraschimataro |  |  |  | till the last turtle; day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | participle |  | the last turtle *not said here* |  |  | before a splendid palace |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund | Uraschimataro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gold and silver and crystal and precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme |
| 8 | **deck** | participle | the young man *not said here* |  |  | here |  | with branches of pale pink coral | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with branch=Theme |
| 9 | **glitter** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | pearls |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pearl=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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