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title: The chase continued for several days and nights; several times the n… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The chase continued for several days and nights; several times the nyamatsanes almost reached him, and each time he was saved by his little pebble. Who acts: chase, little pebble. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 21

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The chase continued for several days and nights; several times the nyamatsanes almost reached him, and each time he was saved by his little pebble.

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**Who acts:** chase, little pebble · **What happens:** continue, reach, save · **To what, where:** chase, time

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chase, little pebble), 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:pg5615:35:21
# text = The chase continued for several days and nights; several times the nyamatsanes almost reached him, and each time he was saved by his little pebble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the chase |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the chase *not said here* | chase |  |  | time | almost *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | past · passive | chase's little pebble | each time |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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