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title: But without looking at her or thanking her he snatched the honey com… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But without looking at her or thanking her he snatched the honey comb out of her hands and ate it all up—every bit, without offering her a morsel. Who acts: voice, honey. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 99

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But without looking at her or thanking her he snatched the honey comb out of her hands and ate it all up—every bit, without offering her a morsel.

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**Who acts:** voice, honey · **What happens:** look, thank, snatch, comb out, eat up, offer · **To what, where:** Princess, bit, hands, honey, morsel

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, honey), 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:pg540:4:99
# text = But without looking at her or thanking her he snatched the honey comb out of her hands and ate it all up—every bit, without offering her a morsel.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comb	comb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | voice *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **snatch** | past | voice | every bit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **comb out** | infinitive | the honey | Princess's hands |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 5 | **eat up** | past | voice *not said here* | honey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **offer** | gerund | voice *not said here* | a morsel | Princess |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal morsel=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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