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title: And taking some strings of the magic grass which the giant had carel… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And taking some strings of the magic grass which the giant had carelessly heaped on them, she bound the feet on to the legs above. Who acts: Kisa. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 48

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And taking some strings of the magic grass which the giant had carelessly heaped on them, she bound the feet on to the legs above.

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**Who acts:** Kisa · **What happens:** take, heap, bind · **To what, where:** strings, giant, feet, legs

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa), 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:pg3282:28:48
# text = And taking some strings of the magic grass which the giant had carelessly heaped on them, she bound the feet on to the legs above.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	above	above	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | some strings of the magic grass |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme |
| 2 | **heap** | past · perfect · passive |  | the giant |  |  |  | on feet *= foot*; carelessly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** | past | Kisa | the feet |  | the legs |  | above *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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