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title: Thus I have spared myself quite half a mile, and have come much quic… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus I have spared myself quite half a mile, and have come much quicker to my sea-cattle!’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 250

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Thus I have spared myself quite half a mile, and have come much quicker to my sea-cattle!’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** spare, come · **To what, where:** myself

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg640:41:250
# text = Thus I have spared myself quite half a mile, and have come much quicker to my sea-cattle!’
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | present · perfect | I | myself |  |  |  | half mile *obl:unmarked*; thus *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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