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title: Hastily piling up her load by the fire, and thrusting some sticks in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastily piling up her load by the fire, and thrusting some sticks into the flame, she ran down to the river and jumped in. Who acts: third. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 68

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Hastily piling up her load by the fire, and thrusting some sticks into the flame, she ran down to the river and jumped in.

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**Who acts:** third · **What happens:** pile up, thrust, run down, jump in · **To what, where:** load, sticks, flame

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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:pg3454:22:68
# text = Hastily piling up her load by the fire, and thrusting some sticks into the flame, she ran down to the river and jumped in.
1	Hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	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	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	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 | **pile up** | gerund | third *not said here* | third's load |  |  |  | by the fire; hastily *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme by fire=Destination |
| 2 | **thrust** | gerund | third *not said here* | some sticks |  | the flame |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | past | third |  |  |  |  | to the river *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result |
| 4 | **jump in** | past | third *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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