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title: Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into the blue ribbon which girls always wear in that part of the country. Who acts: Blushing, girls. 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
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 82

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Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into the blue ribbon which girls always wear in that part of the country.

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**Who acts:** Blushing, girls · **What happens:** blush, go, stick, wear · **To what, where:** feather, blue ribbon, part

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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 (Blushing, girls), 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:pg3454:32:82
# text = Blushing with pleasure Tephany went home and stuck the feather into the blue ribbon which girls always wear in that part of the country.
1	Blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Blushing |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stick** | past | Blushing *not said here* | the feather |  | the blue ribbon |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme into ribbon=Destination |
| 4 | **wear** | present | girls | the blue ribbon |  | that part of the country |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |

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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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