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title: In the meantime the King’s daughter, who could also run well, as wel… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the King’s daughter, who could also run well, as well as an ordinary man could, reached the stream, and hastened back with her pitcher full of water. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 34

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In the meantime the King’s daughter, who could also run well, as well as an ordinary man could, reached the stream, and hastened back with her pitcher full of water.

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**What happens:** run, reach, hasten back · **To what, where:** meantime, stream

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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: 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:pg640:19:34
# text = In the meantime the King’s daughter, who could also run well, as well as an ordinary man could, reached the stream, and hastened back with her pitcher full of water.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **run** | could |  |  |  | the meantime  the King's daughter |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | could |  | the stream |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with horse's pitcher | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with pitcher=Eventuality |

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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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