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title: Without pausing for a moment, Milan and Hyacinthia mounted him and g… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Without pausing for a moment, Milan and Hyacinthia mounted him and galloped as fast as they could into the country of King Kojata. Who acts: Milan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 107

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Without pausing for a moment, Milan and Hyacinthia mounted him and galloped as fast as they could into the country of King Kojata.

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**Who acts:** Milan · **What happens:** pause, mount, gallop · **To what, where:** Hyacinthia, country

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milan), 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:pg7277:28:107
# text = Without pausing for a moment, Milan and Hyacinthia mounted him and galloped as fast as they could into the country of King Kojata.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | gerund | Milan and Hyacinthia *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mount** | past | Milan and Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **gallop** | past | Milan and Hyacinthia *not said here* |  |  | the country of King |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination |

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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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