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title: Lily's heart was racing too, but she kept her face calm, slipped out… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's heart was racing too, but she kept her face calm, slipped out of the door and fetched Mr Hughes from the staffroom. Who acts: heart. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 4

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Lily's heart was racing too, but she kept her face calm, slipped out of the door and fetched Mr Hughes from the staffroom.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** race, keep, slip out, fetch · **To what, where:** face, door, Mr Hughes, staffroom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:4
# text = Lily's heart was racing too, but she kept her face calm, slipped out of the door and fetched Mr Hughes from the staffroom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	racing	race	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	staffroom	staffroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race** | past · progressive | Lily's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | heart | heart's face |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 3 | **slip out** | past | heart *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **fetch** | past | heart *not said here* | Mr Hughes |  | the staffroom |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hughes=Theme from staffroom=Source |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:4`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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