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title: And she threw herself upon Snowflake (for that was the snow-child’s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she threw herself upon Snowflake (for that was the snow-child’s name) and covered her with kisses. Who acts: heaven, that. 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 26

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And she threw herself upon Snowflake (for that was the snow-child’s name) and covered her with kisses.

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**Who acts:** heaven, that · **What happens:** throw, be, cover · **To what, where:** heaven

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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 (heaven, that), 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:pg5615:16:26
# text = And she threw herself upon Snowflake (for that was the snow-child’s name) and covered her with kisses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | heaven | heaven |  |  |  | upon Snowflake | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon snowflake=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for the snow child's name | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | past | heaven *not said here* |  | heaven |  |  | with kisses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with kiss=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 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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