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title: Then the runner got a pitcher, and the King’s daughter another, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the runner got a pitcher, and the King’s daughter another, and they began to run at the same time; but in a moment, when the King’s daughter was only just a little way off, no spectator could see the runner, and it seemed as if the wind had whistled past. Who acts: runner, servant, daughter, sp
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 30

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Then the runner got a pitcher, and the King’s daughter another, and they began to run at the same time; but in a moment, when the King’s daughter was only just a little way off, no spectator could see the runner, and it seemed as if the wind had whistled past.

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**Who acts:** runner, servant, daughter, spectator, it · **What happens:** get, begin, run, be, see, seem · **To what, where:** pitcher, little way, runner, wind

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (runner, servant, daughter, spectator), 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:pg640:19:30
# text = Then the runner got a pitcher, and the King’s daughter another, and they began to run at the same time; but in a moment, when the King’s daughter was only just a little way off, no spectator could see the runner, and it seemed as if the wind had whistled past.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
37	just	just	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
41	off	off	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	spectator	spectator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	_
59	past	past	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the runner | a pitcher |  |  | then | the King's daughter *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | past | servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run** | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the King's daughter | a little way |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | could | no spectator | the runner |  |  | moment |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runner=Stimulus |
| 6 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **whistle past** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  |  | past *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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