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title: The youth now hastened to fasten down the chains to the ground by me… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth now hastened to fasten down the chains to the ground by means of the enormous iron pegs which he had provided. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 164

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The youth now hastened to fasten down the chains to the ground by means of the enormous iron pegs which he had provided.

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**What happens:** hasten, fasten down, mean, provide · **To what, where:** youth, chains, enormous iron pegs

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:5:164
# text = The youth now hastened to fasten down the chains to the ground by means of the enormous iron pegs which he had provided.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle · passive |  | the youth |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fasten down** | to-infinitive |  | the chains |  |  |  | to the ground | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient to ground=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the enormous iron pegs | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **provide** | past · perfect · passive |  | the enormous iron pegs |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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