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title: With all speed they began to retrace their steps, but this time the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With all speed they began to retrace their steps, but this time the happy Prince could not bear the sight of his defeated and disappointed rivals, whose frozen forms lined his triumphant way. Who acts: spaniels, time, frozen forms. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, p
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 41

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With all speed they began to retrace their steps, but this time the happy Prince could not bear the sight of his defeated and disappointed rivals, whose frozen forms lined his triumphant way.

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**Who acts:** spaniels, time, frozen forms · **What happens:** begin, retrace, not bear, defeat, line, step · **To what, where:** steps, sight, triumphant way, defeated rivals

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spaniels, time, frozen forms), 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:pg7277:17:41
# text = With all speed they began to retrace their steps, but this time the happy Prince could not bear the sight of his defeated and disappointed rivals, whose frozen forms lined his triumphant way.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	retrace	retrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lined	line	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | spaniels *= spaniel* |  |  |  |  | with all speed | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **retrace** | to-infinitive | spaniels *= spaniel* *not said here* | spaniels's steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | this time | the sight of foot's defeated rivals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient |
| 4 | **defeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **line** | past | frozen forms | foot's triumphant way |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination |
| 6 | **step** |  | spaniels *= spaniel* |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | foot's defeated rivals |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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