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title: And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at full til… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at full tilt to the stone tower where Martin was a prisoner, taking the rolls with them. Who acts: moment, rolls, Martin. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 154

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And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at full tilt to the stone tower where Martin was a prisoner, taking the rolls with them.

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**Who acts:** moment, rolls, Martin · **What happens:** join, set off, be, take · **To what, where:** Waska, full tilt, prisoner, rolls

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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 (moment, rolls, Martin), 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:pg640:33:154
# text = And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at full tilt to the stone tower where Martin was a prisoner, taking the rolls with them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | a moment | Waska |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **set off** | past | rolls *= roll* |  |  | full tilt to the stone tower |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Martin | a prisoner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | rolls *= roll* *not said here* | the rolls |  |  |  | with rolls *= roll* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme |

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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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