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title: Up he came, puffing and blowing: “Oh, Pivi,” he cried, “I cannot mov… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Up he came, puffing and blowing: “Oh, Pivi,” he cried, “I cannot move it. Who acts: Kabo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 133

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Up he came, puffing and blowing: “Oh, Pivi,” he cried, “I cannot move it.

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**Who acts:** Kabo · **What happens:** come, puff, blow, cry, not move · **To what, where:** fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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:pg3282:19:133
# text = Up he came, puffing and blowing: “Oh, Pivi,” he cried, “I cannot move it.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Kabo |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **puff** | gerund | Kabo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund | Kabo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Kabo |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **move** *in a quote* | can | Kabo | fish |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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