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title: When at last she stooped to fill her pail at the well Pinkel pushed… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last she stooped to fill her pail at the well Pinkel pushed her into it, and snatching up the lantern hurried back to his boat and rowed off from the shore. Who acts: girl, Pinkel, snatching. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 81

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When at last she stooped to fill her pail at the well Pinkel pushed her into it, and snatching up the lantern hurried back to his boat and rowed off from the shore.

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**Who acts:** girl, Pinkel, snatching · **What happens:** stoop, fill, push, snatch up, hurry back, row off · **To what, where:** last, pail, girl, lantern, boat, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Pinkel, snatching), 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:pg3027:16:81
# text = When at last she stooped to fill her pail at the well Pinkel pushed her into it, and snatching up the lantern hurried back to his boat and rowed off from the shore.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	well	well	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	snatching	snatch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | girl |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl's pail |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | past | Pinkel | girl |  | pail |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into it=Destination |
| 4 | **snatch up** | gerund |  | the lantern |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme |
| 5 | **hurry back** | past | snatching |  |  | Pinkel's boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to boat=Destination |
| 6 | **row off** | past | snatching *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from shore=Trajectory |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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