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title: Together the two faithful creatures trotted off into the town, and v… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Together the two faithful creatures trotted off into the town, and very soon they met a baker bearing a tray on his head, and looking round on all sides, while he cried: Who acts: two faithful creatures, creatures, baker. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 150

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Together the two faithful creatures trotted off into the town, and very soon they met a baker bearing a tray on his head, and looking round on all sides, while he cried:

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**Who acts:** two faithful creatures, creatures, baker · **What happens:** trot off, meet, bear, look round, cry · **To what, where:** town, baker, tray, head

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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 (two faithful creatures, creatures, baker), 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:pg640:33:150
# text = Together the two faithful creatures trotted off into the town, and very soon they met a baker bearing a tray on his head, and looking round on all sides, while he cried:
1	Together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trot off** | past | the two faithful creatures |  |  | the town |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into town=Destination |
| 2 | **meet** | past | creatures *= creature* | a baker |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baker=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | creatures *= creature* *not said here* | a tray |  | baker's head |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Patient |
| 4 | **look round** | gerund | baker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on all sides; round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | baker |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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