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title: With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder sh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 86

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With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** dance, lean, sweep · **To what, where:** shoulder

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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:pg540:2:86
# text = With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
7	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | hair |  |  |  |  | with eagerness | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | hair *not said here* |  |  | hair's partner's shoulder |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | hair | hair's partner's shoulder *not said here* |  |  |  | by a whirlwind | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme by whirlwind=Trajectory |

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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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