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title: This continued for a few minutes, and then everything vanished into… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This continued for a few minutes, and then everything vanished into thin air, and Iwanich found himself suddenly alone upon a desolate heath covered with rocks and stones. Who acts: everything, Iwanich. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, wit
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 32

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This continued for a few minutes, and then everything vanished into thin air, and Iwanich found himself suddenly alone upon a desolate heath covered with rocks and stones.

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**Who acts:** everything, Iwanich · **What happens:** continue, vanish, find, desolate, cover · **To what, where:** This, thin air, Iwanich, desolate heath

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, Iwanich), 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:pg640:31:32
# text = This continued for a few minutes, and then everything vanished into thin air, and Iwanich found himself suddenly alone upon a desolate heath covered with rocks and stones.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	compound	_	_
25	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  | minute |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | everything |  |  | thin air | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Iwanich | Iwanich |  |  |  | upon a desolate heath; alone *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 4 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | a desolate heath *not said here* |  |  |  | with rocks and stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rock=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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