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title: The creature fell heavily on the ground, and out of its side sprang… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The creature fell heavily on the ground, and out of its side sprang a little hare, which ran like the wind along the river bank. Who acts: creature, little hare. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 25

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The creature fell heavily on the ground, and out of its side sprang a little hare, which ran like the wind along the river bank.

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**Who acts:** creature, little hare · **What happens:** fall, spring, run · **To what, where:** ground, little hare, side, river bank

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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 (creature, little hare), 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:pg640:26:25
# text = The creature fell heavily on the ground, and out of its side sprang a little hare, which ran like the wind along the river bank.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the creature |  |  | the ground |  | heavily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the creature *not said here* | a little hare |  | creature's side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hare=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | a little hare |  |  | the river bank |  | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory |

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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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