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title: The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side. Who acts: beast, hind feet. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its de
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 18

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The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side.

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**Who acts:** beast, hind feet · **What happens:** shy, open, toss, rear, slip, fall · **To what, where:** beast, wide nostrils, mane, air, steep mountain side

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (beast, hind feet), 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:pg640:22:18
# text = The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shied	shy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	rearing	rear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shy** | participle |  | the beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | the beast | beast's wide nostrils |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nostril=Theme |
| 3 | **toss** | past | the beast *not said here* | beast's mane |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Patient |
| 4 | **rear** | gerund | the beast *not said here* |  |  | the air | then |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **slip** | past | beast's hind feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **fall** | past | beast |  |  | the steep mountain side |  | with beast's rider | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down side=Initial\_Location |

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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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