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title: He snatched it from the case and thrust his foot into it, nearly wee… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He snatched it from the case and thrust his foot into it, nearly weeping for joy when he found he could walk and run as easily as any beggar boy. Who acts: king. 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 42

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He snatched it from the case and thrust his foot into it, nearly weeping for joy when he found he could walk and run as easily as any beggar boy.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** snatch, weep, find, walk, run · **To what, where:** material, case · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king), 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:pg3027:37:42
# text = He snatched it from the case and thrust his foot into it, nearly weeping for joy when he found he could walk and run as easily as any beggar boy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | past | king | material |  | the case and thrust |  | into material | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for joy; nearly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | could | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as any beggar boy; easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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