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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 96

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She stamped on the floor, and shook him and called to him, telling him that he was in great danger, and must take flight at once.

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**Who acts:** housekeeper, magician · **What happens:** stamp, shake, call, tell, be, take · **To what, where:** floor, magician, great danger, flight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper, magician), 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:pg2435:13:96
# text = She stamped on the floor, and shook him and called to him, telling him that he was in great danger, and must take flight at once.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | housekeeper |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 2 | **shake** | past | housekeeper *not said here* | magician |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past | housekeeper *not said here* |  | magician |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | housekeeper *not said here* |  | magician |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | magician |  |  | great danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | must |  | flight |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent flight=Theme at once=Asset |

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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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