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title: Before they had got back again, however, and up on top of the cave,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before they had got back again, however, and up on top of the cave, they saw the poor old fellow’s ghost come marching up from the river. Who acts: trolls, ghost, poor old fellow. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 133

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Before they had got back again, however, and up on top of the cave, they saw the poor old fellow’s ghost come marching up from the river.

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**Who acts:** trolls, ghost, poor old fellow · **What happens:** get back, see, come, march up, ghost · **To what, where:** top, river

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trolls, ghost, poor old fellow), 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:pg640:42:133
# text = Before they had got back again, however, and up on top of the cave, they saw the poor old fellow’s ghost come marching up from the river.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past · perfect | trolls *= troll* |  |  | top of the cave | again | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on top=Source |
| 2 | **see** | past | trolls *= troll* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present | the poor old fellow's ghost |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **march up** | gerund | the poor old fellow's ghost *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from river=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ghost** |  | the poor old fellow |  |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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