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title: Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking f… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking from his pocket some food of which the goat was particularly fond, he laid it under his nose. Who acts: Pinkel, goat. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 13

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Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking from his pocket some food of which the goat was particularly fond, he laid it under his nose.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel, goat · **What happens:** slip off, steal, take, be, lay · **To what, where:** shoes, hut, food, pocket, nose

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, goat), 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:pg3027:17:13
# text = Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking from his pocket some food of which the goat was particularly fond, he laid it under his nose.
1	Slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip off** | gerund |  | Pinkel's shoes |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 2 | **steal** | past | Pinkel |  |  | the hut on tiptoe |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* | some food |  | Pinkel's pocket |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent food=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the goat |  |  |  |  | of some food; fond, particularly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past | Pinkel | food |  | Pinkel's nose |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under nose=Destination |

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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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