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title: And suddenly the tramp of horses’ hoofs was heard, and the barking o… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And suddenly the tramp of horses’ hoofs was heard, and the barking of dogs, and the witch hastened forward to meet the royal carriages, and, throwing her arms round the King’s neck, kissed him. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 22

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And suddenly the tramp of horses’ hoofs was heard, and the barking of dogs, and the witch hastened forward to meet the royal carriages, and, throwing her arms round the King’s neck, kissed him.

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**What happens:** hear, hasten, meet, throw, kiss · **To what, where:** tramp, witch, royal carriages, arms, King

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:29:22
# text = And suddenly the tramp of horses’ hoofs was heard, and the barking of dogs, and the witch hastened forward to meet the royal carriages, and, throwing her arms round the King’s neck, kissed him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	round	round	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the tramp of horses's hoofs |  |  |  | the barking of dogs *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the royal carriages |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund |  | witch's arms |  |  |  | round the King's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **kiss** | past |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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