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title: Thereupon Waska and Schurka started off, and travelled night and day… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Waska and Schurka started off, and travelled night and day till they reached the stone tower where Martin was imprisoned; and the cat climbed up the window, and called out to him: Who acts: Waska, mice, cat. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dep
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 185

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Thereupon Waska and Schurka started off, and travelled night and day till they reached the stone tower where Martin was imprisoned; and the cat climbed up the window, and called out to him:

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**Who acts:** Waska, mice, cat · **What happens:** start off, travel, reach, imprison, climb up, call out · **To what, where:** stone tower, Martin, window

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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 (Waska, mice, cat), 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:pg640:33:185
# text = Thereupon Waska and Schurka started off, and travelled night and day till they reached the stone tower where Martin was imprisoned; and the cat climbed up the window, and called out to him:
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | Waska and Schurka |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Waska and Schurka *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | mice *= mouse* | the stone tower |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme |
| 4 | **imprison** | past · passive |  | Martin |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **climb up** | past | the cat | the window |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location window=Theme |
| 6 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the cat *not said here* |  | Martin |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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