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title: So she picked up a knife and scraped away all the gold which had stu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she picked up a knife and scraped away all the gold which had stuck to his skin, and which had been sticking there ever since he first stole it. Who acts: woman, Carrier. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 51

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So she picked up a knife and scraped away all the gold which had stuck to his skin, and which had been sticking there ever since he first stole it.

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**Who acts:** woman, Carrier · **What happens:** pick up, scrape away, stick, steal · **To what, where:** knife, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Carrier), 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:pg3282:8:51
# text = So she picked up a knife and scraped away all the gold which had stuck to his skin, and which had been sticking there ever since he first stole it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	scraped	scrape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
27	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	advmod	_	_
30	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | woman | a knife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic |
| 2 | **scrape away** | past | woman *not said here* | all gold |  |  |  | away *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
| 3 | **stick** | past · perfect · passive |  | all gold |  |  |  | to Carrier's skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to skin=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **stick** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | there | ever |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **steal** | past | Carrier | gold |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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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