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title: Next she lifted down a spade from a high shelf, where it had grown q… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next she lifted down a spade from a high shelf, where it had grown quite rusty, and dug a very small hole on the opposite side of the hut—very small, but very deep. Who acts: hole, spade. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 64

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Next she lifted down a spade from a high shelf, where it had grown quite rusty, and dug a very small hole on the opposite side of the hut—very small, but very deep.

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**Who acts:** hole, spade · **What happens:** lift down, grow, dig · **To what, where:** spade, high shelf, small hole, opposite side

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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 (hole, spade), 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:pg3282:8:64
# text = Next she lifted down a spade from a high shelf, where it had grown quite rusty, and dug a very small hole on the opposite side of the hut—very small, but very deep.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | **lift down** | past | hole | a spade |  | a high shelf |  | next *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spade=Theme from shelf=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | past · perfect | spade |  |  |  |  | rusty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dig** | past | hole *not said here* | a small hole |  | the opposite side of the hut |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme on side=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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