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title: At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who ha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who had been watching and hoping for a chance of this kind, ran down the opening and stood before her. Who acts: maiden, flames, Eisenkopf, kind. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 17

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At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who had been watching and hoping for a chance of this kind, ran down the opening and stood before her.

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**Who acts:** maiden, flames, Eisenkopf, kind · **What happens:** give, divide, watch, hope, run down, stand · **To what, where:** third blow, opening

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, flames, Eisenkopf, kind), 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:pg2435:28:17
# text = At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who had been watching and hoping for a chance of this kind, ran down the opening and stood before her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
12	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
27	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | maiden |  |  | the third blow |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **divide** | past | the flames |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | Eisenkopf |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund | Eisenkopf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a chance of this kind | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for chance=Theme |
| 5 | **run down** | past | Eisenkopf | the opening |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Trajectory |
| 6 | **stand** | past | Eisenkopf *not said here* |  |  |  | before maiden |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 7 | **chance** |  | this kind |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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