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title: Iwanich sprang at once on to the mare’s back, seized the foal by its… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Iwanich sprang at once on to the mare’s back, seized the foal by its bridle, and hastened home in the highest spirits. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 92

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Iwanich sprang at once on to the mare’s back, seized the foal by its bridle, and hastened home in the highest spirits.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich · **What happens:** spring, seize, hasten · **To what, where:** back, foal, highest spirits

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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:pg640:31:92
# text = Iwanich sprang at once on to the mare’s back, seized the foal by its bridle, and hastened home in the highest spirits.
1	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | Iwanich |  |  | the mare's back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seize** | past |  | the foal |  |  |  | by foal's bridle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  | the highest spirits |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spirit=Trajectory |

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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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