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title: The thought that he should soon behold his lost bride made his heart… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The thought that he should soon behold his lost bride made his heart beat for joy, and he sped along lightly and swiftly. Who acts: thought. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 18

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The thought that he should soon behold his lost bride made his heart beat for joy, and he sped along lightly and swiftly.

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**Who acts:** thought · **What happens:** behold, lose, make, speed · **To what, where:** lost bride, heart beat

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought), 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:pg640:28:18
# text = The thought that he should soon behold his lost bride made his heart beat for joy, and he sped along lightly and swiftly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | should | thought | thought's lost bride |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | the thought | thought's heart beat |  |  |  | for joy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent beat=Product for joy=Asset |
| 4 | **speed** | past | thought |  |  |  |  | along, lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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