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title: On her hands and feet she went, but even with the horse-shoes on she… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On her hands and feet she went, but even with the horse-shoes on she had to be very careful not to stumble, lest some poisoned thorns should enter into her flesh, and she should die. Who acts: girl, poisoned thorns. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 134

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On her hands and feet she went, but even with the horse-shoes on she had to be very careful not to stumble, lest some poisoned thorns should enter into her flesh, and she should die.

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**Who acts:** girl, poisoned thorns · **What happens:** go, have, be, not stumble, poison, enter · **To what, where:** hands, flesh

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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, poisoned thorns), 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:pg3454:36:134
# text = On her hands and feet she went, but even with the horse-shoes on she had to be very careful not to stumble, lest some poisoned thorns should enter into her flesh, and she should die.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | girl |  |  | girl's hands and feet |  | with the horse shoes | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with shoe=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **stumble** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **enter** | should | some poisoned thorns |  |  | girl's flesh |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into flesh=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **die** | should | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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