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title: Stumbling and raging, Peppina set off for home, thinking herself for… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stumbling and raging, Peppina set off for home, thinking herself fortunate to find a stick by the wayside with which to support herself. Who acts: Peppina, wayside. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 70

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Stumbling and raging, Peppina set off for home, thinking herself fortunate to find a stick by the wayside with which to support herself.

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**Who acts:** Peppina, wayside · **What happens:** stumble, rage, set off, think, find, support · **To what, where:** Peppina, stick

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppina, wayside), 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:pg2435:36:70
# text = Stumbling and raging, Peppina set off for home, thinking herself fortunate to find a stick by the wayside with which to support herself.
1	Stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** | gerund | Peppina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rage** | gerund | Peppina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set off** | past | Peppina |  |  |  |  | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Peppina *not said here* | Peppina |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Peppina *not said here* | a stick |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
| 6 | **support** | to-infinitive | the wayside | Peppina |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |

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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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