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title: Then came the big Red Ant skipping along his body, and then Pivi sho… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the big Red Ant skipping along his body, and then Pivi shook himself all over. Who acts: big Red Ant, Pivi. 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 72

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Then came the big Red Ant skipping along his body, and then Pivi shook himself all over.

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**Who acts:** big Red Ant, Pivi · **What happens:** come, skip, shake · **To what, where:** body, Ant

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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 (big Red Ant, Pivi), 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:pg3282:19:72
# text = Then came the big Red Ant skipping along his body, and then Pivi shook himself all over.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Ant	Ant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the big Red Ant |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **skip** | gerund | the big Red Ant *not said here* |  |  | Ant's body |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along body=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shake** | past | Pivi | Ant |  |  | then | over *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=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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