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title: And a moment later the swift runner reappeared, and, stepping on boa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And a moment later the swift runner reappeared, and, stepping on board the ship, handed the healing water to the Simpleton. Who acts: swift runner. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 96

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And a moment later the swift runner reappeared, and, stepping on board the ship, handed the healing water to the Simpleton.

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**Who acts:** swift runner · **What happens:** reappear, step, hand · **To what, where:** ship, healing water, Simpleton

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swift runner), 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:pg640:35:96
# text = And a moment later the swift runner reappeared, and, stepping on board the ship, handed the healing water to the Simpleton.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reappeared	reappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	board	board	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reappear** | past | the swift runner |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **step** | gerund |  |  |  | the ship |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hand** | past | the swift runner *not said here* | the healing water | the Simpleton |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to simpleton=Destination |

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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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