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title: This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before. Who acts: time, girl, lion. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 23

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This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before.

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**Who acts:** time, girl, lion · **What happens:** not be, run, wash, lay, bind up, thank · **To what, where:** all, wound, soothing herbs, girl, same manner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, girl, lion), 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:pg5615:21:23
# text = This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	soothing	soothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	before	before	ADV	RB	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | this time |  |  | all |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards surprise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund | this time *not said here* | the wound |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund | this time *not said here* | soothing herbs |  | wound |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herb=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 5 | **bind up** | past · perfect | girl | wound |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the lion |  | girl | the same manner |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as before=Attribute |

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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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