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title: How glad the ant was to be out of the giant's castle, holding fast t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How glad the ant was to be out of the giant's castle, holding fast the crown which had shrunk into almost nothing, as she herself had done, but grew quite big again when the ant exclaimed: Who acts: glad ant, crown, ant. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with it
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 19

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How glad the ant was to be out of the giant's castle, holding fast the crown which had shrunk into almost nothing, as she herself had done, but grew quite big again when the ant exclaimed:

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**Who acts:** glad ant, crown, ant · **What happens:** be, hold, shrink, do, grow, exclaim · **To what, where:** castle, crown, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glad ant, crown, ant), 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:pg3027:26:19
# text = How glad the ant was to be out of the giant's castle, holding fast the crown which had shrunk into almost nothing, as she herself had done, but grew quite big again when the ant exclaimed:
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	shrunk	shrink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the glad ant |  |  | the giant's castle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the glad ant *not said here* | the crown |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **shrink** | past · perfect | the crown |  |  |  |  | into nothing *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into nothing=Result |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | ant |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | past | the glad ant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the ant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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