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title: At daybreak nest morning he drove his horses to the field, and broug… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At daybreak nest morning he drove his horses to the field, and brought them back in the evening without their ever having attempted to break away from him. Who acts: Iwanich. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 53

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At daybreak nest morning he drove his horses to the field, and brought them back in the evening without their ever having attempted to break away from him.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich · **What happens:** drive, bring back, attempt, break away · **To what, where:** horses, field

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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), 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:pg640:31:53
# text = At daybreak nest morning he drove his horses to the field, and brought them back in the evening without their ever having attempted to break away from him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | Iwanich | Iwanich's horses |  | the field | morning |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bring back** | past | Iwanich *not said here* | horses *= horse* |  |  | evening |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **attempt** | gerund · perfect | Iwanich *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **break away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Iwanich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Iwanich; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient |

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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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