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title: Then they hastened home to the King with his three treasures, where… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they hastened home to the King with his three treasures, where they arrived late on Christmas night, and Ring handed them over to him. Who acts: others, Ring, iron. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 143

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Then they hastened home to the King with his three treasures, where they arrived late on Christmas night, and Ring handed them over to him.

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**Who acts:** others, Ring, iron · **What happens:** hasten, arrive, hand over, treasure · **To what, where:** others, iron

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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 (others, Ring, iron), 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:pg640:42:143
# text = Then they hastened home to the King with his three treasures, where they arrived late on Christmas night, and Ring handed them over to him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  | then | to the King *result*; with iron's three treasures; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  | night | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hand over** | past | Ring | others *= other* | iron |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Destination |
| 4 | **treasure** |  | iron |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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