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title: With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping the clasp ran to the mirror which hung in the corner. Who acts: Tephany, snapping, mirror. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 107

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With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping the clasp ran to the mirror which hung in the corner.

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**Who acts:** Tephany, snapping, mirror · **What happens:** take, snap, run, hang, shriek · **To what, where:** necklace, clasp, mirror, corner, joy

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany, snapping, mirror), 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:pg3454:32:107
# text = With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping the clasp ran to the mirror which hung in the corner.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clasp	clasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Tephany | the necklace |  |  |  | with a little shriek of joy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme |
| 2 | **snap** | gerund |  | the clasp |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clasp=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | snapping |  |  | the mirror |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mirror=Destination |
| 4 | **hang** | past | the mirror |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 5 | **shriek** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=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 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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