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title: As fast as the old woman put it where it was to stand, that kettle w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As fast as the old woman put it where it was to stand, that kettle was sure to roll off, falling to the ground with a crash. Who acts: matter, kettle. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 64

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As fast as the old woman put it where it was to stand, that kettle was sure to roll off, falling to the ground with a crash.

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**Who acts:** matter, kettle · **What happens:** put, be, roll off, fall · **To what, where:** matter

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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 (matter, kettle), 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:pg2435:10:64
# text = As fast as the old woman put it where it was to stand, that kettle was sure to roll off, falling to the ground with a crash.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past |  | matter |  |  |  | as the old woman; fast *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | past | matter |  |  |  |  | stand *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | that kettle |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll off** | to-infinitive | that kettle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the ground; with a crash | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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:** «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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