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title: The girl awoke with a start, and leant forward to grasp him, but he… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl awoke with a start, and leant forward to grasp him, but he was already flying off, and she only seized a feather from his wing. Who acts: girl, hoodie. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 126

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The girl awoke with a start, and leant forward to grasp him, but he was already flying off, and she only seized a feather from his wing.

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**Who acts:** girl, hoodie · **What happens:** awake, lean, grasp, fly off, seize · **To what, where:** hoodie, feather, wing

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, hoodie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:3297`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:36:126
# text = The girl awoke with a start, and leant forward to grasp him, but he was already flying off, and she only seized a feather from his wing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leant	lean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	grasp	grasp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | with a start | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument |
| 2 | **lean** | past | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grasp** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | hoodie |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly off** | past · progressive | hoodie |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | past | girl | a feather |  | hoodie's wing |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from wing=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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