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title: The First Lord ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corrido… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The First Lord ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors; but none of those he met had ever heard of the Nightingale. Who acts: First Lord, Lord, none. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 33

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The First Lord ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors; but none of those he met had ever heard of the Nightingale.

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**Who acts:** First Lord, Lord, none · **What happens:** run up, meet, hear · **To what, where:** stairs

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (First Lord, Lord, none), 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:pg640:48:33
# text = The First Lord ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors; but none of those he met had ever heard of the Nightingale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | past | the First Lord | stairs and the halls and corridors |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | none |  |  |  | ever | of the Nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nightingale=Stimulus |

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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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