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title: ‘Hardly an hour’s walk from here,’ answered the fox, and offered to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hardly an hour’s walk from here,’ answered the fox, and offered to show the Prince the way to it. Who acts: walk, hour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, 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 3, sentence 21

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‘Hardly an hour’s walk from here,’ answered the fox, and offered to show the Prince the way to it.

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**Who acts:** walk, hour · **What happens:** answer, offer, show, walk · **To what, where:** fox, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walk, hour), 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:pg640:32:21
# text = ‘Hardly an hour’s walk from here,’ answered the fox, and offered to show the Prince the way to it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a hour's walk |  | the fox |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
| 2 | **offer** | participle | a hour's walk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | a hour's walk *not said here* | the Prince | fox |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to it=Recipient |
| 4 | **walk** |  | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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