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title: Down went Pivi into the stream, and floated along it, till he floate… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down went Pivi into the stream, and floated along it, till he floated into a big hollow bamboo, which a woman used for washing her sweet potatoes. Who acts: Kabo, big hollow bamboo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 50

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Down went Pivi into the stream, and floated along it, till he floated into a big hollow bamboo, which a woman used for washing her sweet potatoes.

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**Who acts:** Kabo, big hollow bamboo · **What happens:** go, float, woman, use, wash · **To what, where:** stream, big hollow bamboo, woman, sweet potatoes

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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, big hollow bamboo), 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:pg3282:19:50
# text = Down went Pivi into the stream, and floated along it, till he floated into a big hollow bamboo, which a woman used for washing her sweet potatoes.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the stream |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stream=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **float** | participle |  |  |  | stream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **float** | past | Kabo |  |  | a big hollow bamboo |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bamboo=Destination |
| 4 | **woman** |  | a big hollow bamboo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | participle |  | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wash** | gerund |  | woman's sweet potatoes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient |

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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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