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title: Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wide… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wider yet, and sucked, and Pivi disappeared into its mouth, and the shell shut up with a snap! Who acts: Pivi, shell fish, shell. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 135

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Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wider yet, and sucked, and Pivi disappeared into its mouth, and the shell shut up with a snap!

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**Who acts:** Pivi, shell fish, shell · **What happens:** dive, open, suck, disappear, shut up · **To what, where:** spear, shell, mouth

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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 (Pivi, shell fish, shell), 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:pg3282:19:135
# text = Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wider yet, and sucked, and Pivi disappeared into its mouth, and the shell shut up with a snap!
1	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | past | Pivi | Kabo's spear |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spear=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | the shell fish | fish's shell |  |  | yet |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 3 | **suck** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | Pivi |  |  | fish's mouth |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shut up** | participle | the shell |  |  |  |  | with a snap | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with snap=Instrument |

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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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