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title: Then they put the Soldier into the King’s coach, and the three dogs… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they put the Soldier into the King’s coach, and the three dogs danced in front, crying ‘Hurrah!’ Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 143

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Then they put the Soldier into the King’s coach, and the three dogs danced in front, crying ‘Hurrah!’

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** put, dance, cry · **To what, where:** Soldier, coach, three dogs, front, Hurrah

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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 (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:pg640:46:143
# text = Then they put the Soldier into the King’s coach, and the three dogs danced in front, crying ‘Hurrah!’
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	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | people |  | the Soldier | the King's coach | then |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent soldier=Goal |
| 2 | **dance** | participle · passive |  | the three dogs |  | front |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  | Hurrah |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |

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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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