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title: And he held one nostril and blew with the other at the two regiments… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he held one nostril and blew with the other at the two regiments; they were separated and blown away in the blue sky over the mountains, one this way, and the other that. Who acts: blower. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 77

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And he held one nostril and blew with the other at the two regiments; they were separated and blown away in the blue sky over the mountains, one this way, and the other that.

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**Who acts:** blower · **What happens:** hold, blow, separate, blow away · **To what, where:** one nostril, two regiments, nostrils, blue sky

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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 (blower), 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:pg640:19:77
# text = And he held one nostril and blew with the other at the two regiments; they were separated and blown away in the blue sky over the mountains, one this way, and the other that.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	nostril	nostril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	regiments	regiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | blower | one nostril |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | past | blower *not said here* |  |  | the two regiments |  | with the other | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with other=Theme |
| 3 | **separate** | past · passive |  | nostrils *= nostril* |  |  |  | one  this way *obl* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **blow away** | participle |  |  |  | the blue sky |  | over the mountains; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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