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title: Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his l… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged. Who acts: soldier, people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 125

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Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged.

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**Who acts:** soldier, people · **What happens:** see, hurry, hange · **To what, where:** iron grating, town, soldier

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, people), 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:pg640:46:125
# text = Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | soldier |  |  | the iron grating | morning | in front of soldier's little window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hurry** | past · progressive | the people |  |  | the town |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out town=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hange** | participle | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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