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title: In leaping after little flies she had thrown herself high upon the b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In leaping after little flies she had thrown herself high upon the bank, where she had lain till she was nearly dead. Who acts: Charming. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 47

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In leaping after little flies she had thrown herself high upon the bank, where she had lain till she was nearly dead.

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** leap, throw, lie, be · **To what, where:** Charming, bank

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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:pg503:28:47
# text = In leaping after little flies she had thrown herself high upon the bank, where she had lain till she was nearly dead.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | gerund | Charming *not said here* |  |  |  | after little flies |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past · perfect | Charming | Charming |  | the bank |  | high *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon bank=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past · perfect · passive |  | Charming |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Charming |  |  |  |  | dead, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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