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title: And then she changed herself into a man, and picking up the stiff bo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then she changed herself into a man, and picking up the stiff body of the tanuki, set off towards the village. Who acts: Ungarische. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 30

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And then she changed herself into a man, and picking up the stiff body of the tanuki, set off towards the village.

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**Who acts:** Ungarische · **What happens:** change, pick up, set off · **To what, where:** Ungarische, stiff body, village

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ungarische), 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:pg2435:32:30
# text = And then she changed herself into a man, and picking up the stiff body of the tanuki, set off towards the village.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Ungarische | Ungarische |  |  | then | into a man *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into man=Result |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund | Ungarische *not said here* | the stiff body of the tanuki |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 3 | **set off** | participle | Ungarische *not said here* |  |  | the village |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards village=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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