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title: Hand in hand, they hurried to the spot where they had descended into… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand in hand, they hurried to the spot where they had descended into the lower world, and at last reached the banks of the lake. Who acts: words. 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 18

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Hand in hand, they hurried to the spot where they had descended into the lower world, and at last reached the banks of the lake.

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** hurry, descend, reach · **To what, where:** Hand, spot, lower world, banks, last

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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 (words), 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:pg7277:28:18
# text = Hand in hand, they hurried to the spot where they had descended into the lower world, and at last reached the banks of the lake.
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past | words *= word* | Hand in hand |  | the spot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
| 2 | **descend** | past · perfect | words *= word* |  |  | the lower world |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | past | words *= word* *not said here* | the banks of the lake |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bank=Theme at last=Asset |

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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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