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title: Swiftly she went back and felt everywhere with her whole hand, even… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Swiftly she went back and felt everywhere with her whole hand, even putting her fingers into the tiniest crannies, where a crab could hardly have taken shelter. Who acts: snake. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 82

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Swiftly she went back and felt everywhere with her whole hand, even putting her fingers into the tiniest crannies, where a crab could hardly have taken shelter.

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**Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** go back, feel, put, take · **To what, where:** fingers, tiniest crannies, crab

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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:pg3454:21:82
# text = Swiftly she went back and felt everywhere with her whole hand, even putting her fingers into the tiniest crannies, where a crab could hardly have taken shelter.
1	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	crannies	cranny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
29	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | snake |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with snake's whole hand; everywhere *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | snake *not said here* | snake's fingers |  | the tiniest crannies |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 4 | **take** | could · perfect · passive |  | a crab |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shelter=Destination |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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