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title: At the first glimmer of dawn Frisk began to jump about, and when he… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the first glimmer of dawn Frisk began to jump about, and when he had waked Charming they went out together, first into the garden, and then down to the river’s brink, where they wandered up and down. Who acts: Frisk, pats, dawn. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pre
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 94

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At the first glimmer of dawn Frisk began to jump about, and when he had waked Charming they went out together, first into the garden, and then down to the river’s brink, where they wandered up and down.

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**Who acts:** Frisk, pats, dawn · **What happens:** begin, jump about, wake, go out, wander, glimmer · **To what, where:** first glimmer, Charming

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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 (Frisk, pats, dawn), 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:pg503:28:94
# text = At the first glimmer of dawn Frisk began to jump about, and when he had waked Charming they went out together, first into the garden, and then down to the river’s brink, where they wandered up and down.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	waked	wake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
18	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	down	down	ADV	RB	_	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Frisk |  |  | the first glimmer of dawn |  | into the garden | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **jump about** | to-infinitive | Frisk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wake** | past · perfect | Frisk | Charming |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent charming=Patient |
| 4 | **go out** | past | pats *= pat* |  |  |  |  | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wander** | past | pats *= pat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **glimmer** |  | dawn |  |  |  |  |  | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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