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title: Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cas… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cask twice, and out came at least a thousand crowns. Who acts: Duchess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 19

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Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cask twice, and out came at least a thousand crowns.

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**Who acts:** Duchess · **What happens:** take up, tap, come · **To what, where:** little hammer, cask, thousand crowns

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (Duchess), 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:pg540:23:19
# text = Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cask twice, and out came at least a thousand crowns.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tapped	tap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Duchess | a little hammer |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 2 | **tap** | past | Duchess *not said here* |  |  | the cask |  | twice *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon cask=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | Duchess *not said here* | thousand crowns |  |  |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme |

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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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