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title: ‘Tsing pe!’ said the First Lord; and he ran up and down stairs, thro… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Tsing pe!’ said the First Lord; and he ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors, and half the Court ran with him, for they did not want to be trampled under foot. Who acts: First Lord, Lord, Court, corridors. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 40

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‘Tsing pe!’ said the First Lord; and he ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors, and half the Court ran with him, for they did not want to be trampled under foot.

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**Who acts:** First Lord, Lord, Court, corridors · **What happens:** ts, say, run up, run, not want, trample · **To what, where:** pe, halls, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Court, corridors), 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:pg640:48:40
# text = ‘Tsing pe!’ said the First Lord; and he ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors, and half the Court ran with him, for they did not want to be trampled under foot.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tsing	ts	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
3	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
41	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ts** | gerund |  | pe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the First Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run up** | past | Lord |  |  | the halls and corridors |  | down stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=Trajectory |
| 4 | **run** | past | half Court |  |  |  |  | with Lord | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |
| 5 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | corridors *= corridor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **trample** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | corridors *= corridor* *not said here* |  |  | foot |  |  | 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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