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title: Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fountain, turned themselves into eagles again, and flew away. Who acts: youths. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 84

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Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fountain, turned themselves into eagles again, and flew away.

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**Who acts:** youths · **What happens:** rise, go back, turn, fly away · **To what, where:** table, fountains

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths), 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:pg640:7:84
# text = Then the youths rose from the table, went back to the great stone fountain, turned themselves into eagles again, and flew away.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the youths |  |  | the table | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go back** | past | the youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the great stone fountain *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the youths *not said here* | fountains *= fountain* |  |  | again | into eagles *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into eagle=Result |
| 4 | **fly away** | past | the youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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