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title: And thereupon the dogs fell upon the judges and the whole council, s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And thereupon the dogs fell upon the judges and the whole council, seized some by the legs, others by the nose, and threw them so high into the air that they fell and were smashed into pieces. Who acts: dogs, judges, others. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 140

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And thereupon the dogs fell upon the judges and the whole council, seized some by the legs, others by the nose, and threw them so high into the air that they fell and were smashed into pieces.

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**Who acts:** dogs, judges, others · **What happens:** fall, seize, throw, smash · **To what, where:** judges, some, others, air, pieces

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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 (dogs, judges, others), 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:pg640:46:140
# text = And thereupon the dogs fell upon the judges and the whole council, seized some by the legs, others by the nose, and threw them so high into the air that they fell and were smashed into pieces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	smashed	smash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the dogs |  |  | the judges and the whole council |  | thereupon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon judge=Location |
| 2 | **seize** | participle | the judges and the whole council *not said here* | some |  |  |  | by the legs and others; by the nose | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | the dogs *not said here* | others *= other* |  |  |  | into the air *result*; high *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into air=Result |
| 4 | **fall** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smash** | past · passive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result |

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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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