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title: As fast as she put her foot on a ledge of the rock the stone broke a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As fast as she put her foot on a ledge of the rock the stone broke away from under her, and left her in the same place as before. Who acts: princess, stone. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 17

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As fast as she put her foot on a ledge of the rock the stone broke away from under her, and left her in the same place as before.

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**Who acts:** princess, stone · **What happens:** put, break away, leave · **To what, where:** foot, ledge, rock, princess, same place

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, stone), 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:pg3282:26:17
# text = As fast as she put her foot on a ledge of the rock the stone broke away from under her, and left her in the same place as before.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | princess | princess's foot |  | a ledge of the rock |  | fast *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ledge=Destination |
| 2 | **break away** | past | the stone | the rock *not said here* |  |  |  | from princess; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient from she=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | princess *not said here* | princess |  | the same place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in place=Location |

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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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