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title: After that she turned, and went joyfully down the hill again, carryi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After that she turned, and went joyfully down the hill again, carrying her treasures, but her long climb had tired her out, and the brazen pitcher was very heavy, and as she walked a few drops of the water spilt on the stones, and as it touched them they changed into young men and maidens, crowding 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 116

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After that she turned, and went joyfully down the hill again, carrying her treasures, but her long climb had tired her out, and the brazen pitcher was very heavy, and as she walked a few drops of the water spilt on the stones, and as it touched them they changed into young men and maidens, crowding about her to give thanks for their deliverance.

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**Who acts:** girl, long climb, brazen pitcher, climb, pitcher · **What happens:** turn, go, carry, have out, be, walk · **To what, where:** hill, treasures, girl, few drops, water, stones

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, long climb, brazen pitcher, climb), 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:pg5615:20:116
# text = After that she turned, and went joyfully down the hill again, carrying her treasures, but her long climb had tired her out, and the brazen pitcher was very heavy, and as she walked a few drops of the water spilt on the stones, and as it touched them they changed into young men and maidens, crowding about her to give thanks for their deliverance.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	climb	climb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	spilt	spilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
57	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
64	about	about	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	advcl	_	_
68	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
71	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | girl |  |  |  | after that |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  | the hill | again | joyfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | girl *not said here* | girl's treasures |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **have out** | past | girl's long climb | girl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the brazen pitcher |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **walk** | past | girl | a few drops of the water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drop=Trajectory |
| 7 | **spilt** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  | the stones |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **touch** | past | climb | pitcher |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 9 | **change** | past | pitcher |  |  |  |  | into young men and maidens *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result |
| 10 | **crowd** | gerund | pitcher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about girl | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about she=Destination |
| 11 | **give** | to-infinitive | pitcher *not said here* | thanks |  |  |  | for pitcher's deliverance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for deliverance=Asset |
| 12 | **treasure** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 13 | **deliver** |  | pitcher |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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