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title: A few steps further this man came up with another as miserable to th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A few steps further this man came up with another as miserable to the full as he himself; they silently embraced, and then without a word passed the cords round their throats, and fell dead side by side. Who acts: few steps, men. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Bea
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 4

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A few steps further this man came up with another as miserable to the full as he himself; they silently embraced, and then without a word passed the cords round their throats, and fell dead side by side.

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**Who acts:** few steps, men · **What happens:** come up, embrace, pass, fall · **To what, where:** full, cords, dead side

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few steps, men), 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:pg640:17:4
# text = A few steps further this man came up with another as miserable to the full as he himself; they silently embraced, and then without a word passed the cords round their throats, and fell dead side by side.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	round	round	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
38	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | a few steps |  |  | the full |  | with another; as miserable; further *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to full=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | past | a few steps *not said here* | the cords |  |  | then | without a word; round men's throats | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cord=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fall** | past | a few steps *not said here* | dead side |  |  |  | by side | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient side=Result |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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