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title: And then began a great dispute between Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tint… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then began a great dispute between Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, and they came to high words, until at last Grabugeon, who was quicker than the others, ran up to the very top of the nearest tree, and let herself fall, head first, to the ground, and there she lay--quite dead! Who acts: sisters
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 58

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And then began a great dispute between Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, and they came to high words, until at last Grabugeon, who was quicker than the others, ran up to the very top of the nearest tree, and let herself fall, head first, to the ground, and there she lay--quite dead!

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**Who acts:** sisters, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon · **What happens:** begin, come, be, run up, let, fall · **To what, where:** great dispute, high words, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon, head

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, last Grabugeon, Grabugeon), 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:pg503:30:58
# text = And then began a great dispute between Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, and they came to high words, until at last Grabugeon, who was quicker than the others, ran up to the very top of the nearest tree, and let herself fall, head first, to the ground, and there she lay--quite dead!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Tintin	Tintin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Grabugeon	Grabugeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
34	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
47	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	_
59	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  | a great dispute |  |  | then | between Patypata and Grabugeon and Tintin | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  | high words |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to word=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | last Grabugeon |  |  |  |  | than the others; quick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run up** | past | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  | last Grabugeon |  | to the top of the nearest tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Grabugeon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | infinitive | Grabugeon *not said here* | head |  |  |  | to the ground; first *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 7 | **lie** | past | Grabugeon |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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