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title: It moved its little arms and its little legs in the snow that lay ab… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It moved its little arms and its little legs in the snow that lay about it just as the living children did theirs. Who acts: head, snow, living children. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 23

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It moved its little arms and its little legs in the snow that lay about it just as the living children did theirs.

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**Who acts:** head, snow, living children · **What happens:** move, lie, do · **To what, where:** little arms, snow, arms

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, snow, living children), 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:pg5615:16:23
# text = It moved its little arms and its little legs in the snow that lay about it just as the living children did theirs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | head | head's little arms and head's little legs |  | the snow |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme arm=Result |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  | about head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past | the living children | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Eventuality |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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