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title: And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water tha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow, and even whiter than that. Who acts: larger, shirt. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 154

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And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow, and even whiter than that.

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**Who acts:** larger, shirt · **What happens:** take, dip, be, drive · **To what, where:** shirt, water

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larger, shirt), 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:pg503:4:154
# text = And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow, and even whiter than that.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | larger *= large* | the shirt |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 2 | **dip** | past | larger *= large* *not said here* | shirt |  | the water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | shirt |  |  |  |  | as driven snow; white *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** |  | shirt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than that | 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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