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title: Iwanich thanked the old witch, mounted his foal, put spurs to its si… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Iwanich thanked the old witch, mounted his foal, put spurs to its sides, and they flew like lightning through the air. Who acts: Iwanich, spurs. 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 47

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Iwanich thanked the old witch, mounted his foal, put spurs to its sides, and they flew like lightning through the air.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich, spurs · **What happens:** thank, mount, put, fly · **To what, where:** old witch, foal, spurs, air

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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 (Iwanich, spurs), 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:pg640:32:47
# text = Iwanich thanked the old witch, mounted his foal, put spurs to its sides, and they flew like lightning through the air.
1	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Iwanich |  | the old witch |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | past |  | Iwanich's foal |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | spurs |  |  |  | to ground's sides | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal |
| 4 | **fly** | past | spurs *= spur* |  |  | the air |  | like lightning | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |

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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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