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title: At that moment Schurka made a rush between his legs--the baker stumb… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At that moment Schurka made a rush between his legs--the baker stumbled, the tray was upset, the rolls fell to the ground, and, while the man angrily pursued Schurka, Waska managed to drag the rolls out of sight behind a bush. Who acts: Schurka, baker, tray, rolls. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Bo
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 153

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At that moment Schurka made a rush between his legs--the baker stumbled, the tray was upset, the rolls fell to the ground, and, while the man angrily pursued Schurka, Waska managed to drag the rolls out of sight behind a bush.

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**Who acts:** Schurka, baker, tray, rolls, man, Waska · **What happens:** make, stumble, be, fall, pursue, manage · **To what, where:** rush, Schurka, rolls, sight

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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 (Schurka, baker, tray, rolls), 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:pg640:33:153
# text = At that moment Schurka made a rush between his legs--the baker stumbled, the tray was upset, the rolls fell to the ground, and, while the man angrily pursued Schurka, Waska managed to drag the rolls out of sight behind a bush.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
35	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Schurka | a rush |  |  | moment | between Schurka's legs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Product |
| 2 | **stumble** | participle | the baker |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the tray |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the rolls |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 5 | **pursue** | past | the man | Schurka |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schurka=Theme |
| 6 | **manage** | past | Waska |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **drag** | to-infinitive | Waska *not said here* | the rolls |  | sight |  | behind a bush | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent roll=Theme out sight=Initial\_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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