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title: She ran home to her mother at the top of her speed, yelling with rag… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She ran home to her mother at the top of her speed, yelling with rage and despair; and it took Lizina two hours with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap to get rid of the layer of ashes with which Father Gatto had adorned her. Who acts: Peppina, it, Father. A sentence of «The Crimson Fair
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 73

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She ran home to her mother at the top of her speed, yelling with rage and despair; and it took Lizina two hours with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap to get rid of the layer of ashes with which Father Gatto had adorned her.

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**Who acts:** Peppina, it, Father · **What happens:** run, yell, take, get, adorn · **To what, where:** top, Lizina, Peppina

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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, it, Father), 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:pg2435:36:73
# text = She ran home to her mother at the top of her speed, yelling with rage and despair; and it took Lizina two hours with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap to get rid of the layer of ashes with which Father Gatto had adorned her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
40	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
48	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	Gatto	Gatto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Peppina |  |  | the top of Peppina's speed |  | to Peppina's mother *result*; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | Peppina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rage and despair | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | it |  | Lizina |  | hour | with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lizina=Destination |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **adorn** | past · perfect | Father |  | Peppina |  |  | with ashes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with which=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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