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title: Iwanich hurried through the wood as quickly as his legs would carry… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Iwanich hurried through the wood as quickly as his legs would carry him, but, nevertheless, hour after hour went by and not a trace of a green field or a human habitation met his eyes. Who acts: Iwanich, legs, hour, trace. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Serva
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 5

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Iwanich hurried through the wood as quickly as his legs would carry him, but, nevertheless, hour after hour went by and not a trace of a green field or a human habitation met his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich, legs, hour, trace · **What happens:** hurry, carry, go by, meet · **To what, where:** wood, Iwanich, eyes

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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 (Iwanich, legs, hour, trace), 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:pg640:31:5
# text = Iwanich hurried through the wood as quickly as his legs would carry him, but, nevertheless, hour after hour went by and not a trace of a green field or a human habitation met his eyes.
1	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past | Iwanich |  |  | the wood |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **carry** | would | Iwanich's legs | Iwanich |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **go by** | past | hour after hour |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | a trace of a green field or a human habitation | Iwanich's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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