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title: In this way, with torn and bleeding hands, she gained the top; but h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way, with torn and bleeding hands, she gained the top; but here such a violent wind was blowing that she was almost blinded with dust, and was obliged to throw herself on the ground, and feel about after the precious herb. Who acts: princess, violent wind. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21

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In this way, with torn and bleeding hands, she gained the top; but here such a violent wind was blowing that she was almost blinded with dust, and was obliged to throw herself on the ground, and feel about after the precious herb.

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**Who acts:** princess, violent wind · **What happens:** tear, bleed, gain, blow, blind, oblige · **To what, where:** way, hands, top, princess, ground

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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, violent wind), 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:pg3282:26:21
# text = In this way, with torn and bleeding hands, she gained the top; but here such a violent wind was blowing that she was almost blinded with dust, and was obliged to throw herself on the ground, and feel about after the precious herb.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
44	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	after	after	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  | this way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source |
| 3 | **gain** | past | princess | the top |  |  |  | in this way | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient top=Extent in way=Attribute |
| 4 | **blow** | past · progressive | such violent wind |  |  | here |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **blind** | past · passive |  | princess |  |  |  | with dust; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **oblige** | past · passive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 7 | **throw** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 8 | **feel** | present | princess *not said here* |  |  |  | after the precious herb | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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