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title: But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down. Who acts: Paul, six. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 98

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But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down.

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**Who acts:** Paul, six · **What happens:** jump, give, go, roll down · **To what, where:** upward cut

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, six), 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:pg2435:31:98
# text = But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Paul *not said here* | a upward cut |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | that six of the heads |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **roll down** | gerund | that six of the heads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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