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title: Away rode the prince and Kate through the greenwood, Kate, as they p… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Away rode the prince and Kate through the greenwood, Kate, as they pass, plucking nuts from the trees and filling her apron with them. Who acts: king. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 30

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Away rode the prince and Kate through the greenwood, Kate, as they pass, plucking nuts from the trees and filling her apron with them.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** ride, pass, pluck, fill · **To what, where:** prince, greenwood, nuts, trees, apron

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg7439:43:30
# text = Away rode the prince and Kate through the greenwood, Kate, as they pass, plucking nuts from the trees and filling her apron with them.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past |  | the prince and Kate |  | the greenwood |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme through greenwood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | present | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** | gerund | king *not said here* | nuts |  | the trees |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from tree=Source |
| 4 | **fill** | gerund | king *not said here* | Kate's apron |  |  |  | with king | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent apron=Patient with they=Instrument |

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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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