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title: But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something ha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head. Who acts: something. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 40

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But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head.

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** seat, happen, put · **To what, where:** Lion, highest branch, pigs, head

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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 (something), 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:pg5615:21:40
# text = But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | Lion |  | the highest branch |  | soon *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **happen** | past | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past |  | the pigs |  | Lion's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme out head=Destination |

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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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