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title: One day, rushing downhill as fast as he could go, he put his foot in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, rushing downhill as fast as he could go, he put his foot into a hole and fell, rolling into a rocky pit of brambles. Who acts: One day, Balancin. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 24

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One day, rushing downhill as fast as he could go, he put his foot into a hole and fell, rolling into a rocky pit of brambles.

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**Who acts:** One day, Balancin · **What happens:** rush, go, put, fall, roll · **To what, where:** foot, hole, rocky pit

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Balancin), 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:pg3027:37:24
# text = One day, rushing downhill as fast as he could go, he put his foot into a hole and fell, rolling into a rocky pit of brambles.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund | One day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | could | Balancin |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | Balancin | Balancin's foot |  | a hole | day |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Balancin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund | Balancin *not said here* |  |  | a rocky pit of brambles |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pit=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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