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title: To her surprise they stuck tight; then she added the other bones, ti… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To her surprise they stuck tight; then she added the other bones, till she had two long poles the height of the house; these she placed against the wall, at a distance of a yard from one another. Who acts: bones, door, these. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 172

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To her surprise they stuck tight; then she added the other bones, till she had two long poles the height of the house; these she placed against the wall, at a distance of a yard from one another.

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**Who acts:** bones, door, these · **What happens:** stick, add, have, place, surprise · **To what, where:** other bones, two long poles, wall

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, door, these), 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:pg540:12:172
# text = To her surprise they stuck tight; then she added the other bones, till she had two long poles the height of the house; these she placed against the wall, at a distance of a yard from one another.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
42	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | past | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | to door's surprise; tight *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to surprise=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | door | the other bones |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | door | two long poles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient |
| 4 | **place** | past | these |  |  | the wall |  | at a distance of a yard; from one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against wall=Destination |
| 5 | **surprise** |  | door |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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