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title: So Felicia took up her pitcher and ran to her little room, but while… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Felicia took up her pitcher and ran to her little room, but while she had been away Bruno had gone in and taken the pot of pinks, leaving a great cabbage in its place. Who acts: Felicia. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 45

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So Felicia took up her pitcher and ran to her little room, but while she had been away Bruno had gone in and taken the pot of pinks, leaving a great cabbage in its place.

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**Who acts:** Felicia · **What happens:** take up, run, be away, go in, take, leave · **To what, where:** pitcher, pot, great cabbage, place

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia), 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:pg503:22:45
# text = So Felicia took up her pitcher and ran to her little room, but while she had been away Bruno had gone in and taken the pot of pinks, leaving a great cabbage in its place.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Felicia | Felicia's pitcher |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Felicia's little room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result |
| 3 | **be away** | participle | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go in** | past · perfect | Felicia |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | participle | Felicia *not said here* | the pot of pinks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | Felicia *not said here* | a great cabbage |  | pot's place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme in place=Location |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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