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title: Then they were all delighted and in high spirits, took out their whi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they were all delighted and in high spirits, took out their whip, and cracked so much money that it came jumping up from the ground. Who acts: comrades, high spirits, money. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 59

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Then they were all delighted and in high spirits, took out their whip, and cracked so much money that it came jumping up from the ground.

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**Who acts:** comrades, high spirits, money · **What happens:** be, take out, crack, come, jump up · **To what, where:** whip, much money, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades, high spirits, money), 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:pg640:9:59
# text = Then they were all delighted and in high spirits, took out their whip, and cracked so much money that it came jumping up from the ground.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | comrades *= comrade* |  |  |  | then | all, delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take out** | past | high spirits | comrades's whip |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** | past | high spirits *not said here* | much money |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | money |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump up** | gerund | money *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ground=Trajectory |

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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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