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title: Throwing back her head and snuffing the air, she broke into a run, l… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Throwing back her head and snuffing the air, she broke into a run, leaping easily over the rivers and walls that stood in her way. Who acts: head, rivers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 64

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Throwing back her head and snuffing the air, she broke into a run, leaping easily over the rivers and walls that stood in her way.

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**Who acts:** head, rivers · **What happens:** throw back, snuff, break, leap, stand · **To what, where:** head, air, run, rivers, way

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, rivers), 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:pg3027:25:64
# text = Throwing back her head and snuffing the air, she broke into a run, leaping easily over the rivers and walls that stood in her way.
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw back** | gerund | head *not said here* | journey's head |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **snuff** | gerund | head *not said here* | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | head |  |  |  |  | into a run *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into run=Result |
| 4 | **leap** | gerund | head *not said here* |  |  | the rivers and walls |  | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the rivers and walls |  |  | head's way |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |

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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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