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title: They flew and they flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar's castle… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They flew and they flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar's castle just as the wedding party were setting out for the church. Who acts: words, wedding party. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 40

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They flew and they flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar's castle just as the wedding party were setting out for the church.

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**Who acts:** words, wedding party · **What happens:** fly, swoop down, set out · **To what, where:** castle

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, wedding party), 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:pg7439:35:40
# text = They flew and they flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar's castle just as the wedding party were setting out for the church.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Mar	March	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swoop down** | past | words *= word* |  |  | Earl's castle |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set out** | past · progressive | the wedding party |  |  |  |  | for the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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