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title: In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed thei… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed their natural forms, and were hurrying on as fast as they could to reach the river. Who acts: fugitives. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 19

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In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed their natural forms, and were hurrying on as fast as they could to reach the river.

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**Who acts:** fugitives · **What happens:** assume, hurry on, reach, form · **To what, where:** natural forms, meantime, river

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives), 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:pg640:26:19
# text = In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed their natural forms, and were hurrying on as fast as they could to reach the river.
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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past · perfect |  | fugitives's natural forms |  | the meantime and the black girl | again |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **hurry on** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | could | fugitives *= fugitive* | the river |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  | fugitives *= fugitive* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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