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title: In a little time I felt something alive and moving on my left leg, w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a little time I felt something alive and moving on my left leg, which, advancing gently over my breast, came almost up to my chin, when, bending my eyes downward, I perceived it to be a human creature, not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. Who acts: I. 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 25

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In a little time I felt something alive and moving on my left leg, which, advancing gently over my breast, came almost up to my chin, when, bending my eyes downward, I perceived it to be a human creature, not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** feel, move, advance, come, bend, perceive · **To what, where:** something, left leg, breast, chin, eyes, human creature

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:43:25
# text = In a little time I felt something alive and moving on my left leg, which, advancing gently over my breast, came almost up to my chin, when, bending my eyes downward, I perceived it to be a human creature, not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	parataxis	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | I | something |  |  | time |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | my left leg |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 3 | **advance** | gerund |  |  |  | my breast |  | gently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over breast=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | my chin |  | almost *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up chin=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **bend** | gerund | I *not said here* | my eyes |  |  |  | downward *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent eye=Material |
| 6 | **perceive** | past | I | chin |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a human creature |  |  |  |  | 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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