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description: So the two friends walked along hand in hand as fast as they could to get out of the country, and behind them marched the soldiers and the horses with their valuable burdens. Who acts: two friends, friends. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, w
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 55

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So the two friends walked along hand in hand as fast as they could to get out of the country, and behind them marched the soldiers and the horses with their valuable burdens.

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**Who acts:** two friends, friends · **What happens:** walk, get out, march, burden · **To what, where:** hand, country, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, friends), 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:pg7128:27:55
# text = So the two friends walked along hand in hand as fast as they could to get out of the country, and behind them marched the soldiers and the horses with their valuable burdens.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
25	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the two friends |  |  | hand |  | along hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get out** | could | the two friends *not said here* | the country |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **march** | past | the two friends *not said here* | the soldiers and the horses |  |  |  | behind friends *= friend*; with friends's valuable burdens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme behind they=Trajectory |
| 4 | **burden** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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