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title: A thought flashed through her mind, and quick as lightning the girl… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A thought flashed through her mind, and quick as lightning the girl flung herself on her knees, and lifting the animal's feet kissed them one by one. ' Who acts: thought, lifting. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 93

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A thought flashed through her mind, and quick as lightning the girl flung herself on her knees, and lifting the animal's feet kissed them one by one. '

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**Who acts:** thought, lifting · **What happens:** flash, fling, lift, kiss, mind · **To what, where:** thought, mind, girl, knees, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, lifting), 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:pg3027:23:93
# text = A thought flashed through her mind, and quick as lightning the girl flung herself on her knees, and lifting the animal's feet kissed them one by one. '
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	through	through	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	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | participle |  | a thought *not said here* |  | thought's mind |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Location |
| 2 | **fling** | past | a thought | girl |  | thought's knees |  | quick lightning | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on knee=Destination |
| 3 | **lift** | gerund |  | the animal's feet |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | lifting | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** |  | thought |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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