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title: She chattered to herself so fast and clattered her kettle so loudly… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She chattered to herself so fast and clattered her kettle so loudly that you would have thought that a whole campful of gipsies must be coming round the next corner. Who acts: woman, you, whole campful. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 59

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She chattered to herself so fast and clattered her kettle so loudly that you would have thought that a whole campful of gipsies must be coming round the next corner.

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**Who acts:** woman, you, whole campful · **What happens:** chatter, clatter, think, come · **To what, where:** woman, kettle, next corner

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, whole campful), 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:pg2435:10:59
# text = She chattered to herself so fast and clattered her kettle so loudly that you would have thought that a whole campful of gipsies must be coming round the next corner.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	clattered	clatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	campful	campful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gipsies	gipsy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	round	round	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** | past | woman |  | woman |  |  | fast *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 2 | **clatter** | past | woman *not said here* | woman's kettle |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kettle=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | must · progressive | a whole campful of gipsies |  |  | the next corner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial\_Location |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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