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title: And, stepping to the front of the hut, Martin threw his ring from th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, stepping to the front of the hut, Martin threw his ring from the palm of one hand into the other, upon which twelve youths instantly appeared, and demanded what he wanted them to do. Who acts: Martin, twelve youths, youth, fear. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ri
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 125

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And, stepping to the front of the hut, Martin threw his ring from the palm of one hand into the other, upon which twelve youths instantly appeared, and demanded what he wanted them to do.

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**Who acts:** Martin, twelve youths, youth, fear · **What happens:** step, throw, appear, demand, want, do · **To what, where:** front, ring, palm, fear

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, twelve youths, youth, fear), 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:pg640:33:125
# text = And, stepping to the front of the hut, Martin threw his ring from the palm of one hand into the other, upon which twelve youths instantly appeared, and demanded what he wanted them to do.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund | Martin *not said here* |  |  | the front of the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Martin | Martin's ring |  | the palm of one hand |  | into the other | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past | twelve youths |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location |
| 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | twelve youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |
| 5 | **want** | past | youth | fear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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