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title: In an instant she felt herself rising from the ground, with the fan… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant she felt herself rising from the ground, with the fan always beneath her, and while Grimace was too much blinded by her fury to notice what was going on the princess was quickly soaring out of her reach. Who acts: princess, Grimace, fury. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 19

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In an instant she felt herself rising from the ground, with the fan always beneath her, and while Grimace was too much blinded by her fury to notice what was going on the princess was quickly soaring out of her reach.

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**Who acts:** princess, Grimace, fury · **What happens:** feel, rise, be, blind, notice, go · **To what, where:** princess, instant, ground, much, reach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Grimace, fury), 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:pg5615:31:19
# text = In an instant she felt herself rising from the ground, with the fan always beneath her, and while Grimace was too much blinded by her fury to notice what was going on the princess was quickly soaring out of her reach.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	Grimace	Grimace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	ccomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | princess | princess |  | a instant |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | princess *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | with the fan beneath princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Grimace |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blind** | participle · passive | princess's fury | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **notice** | to-infinitive | princess's fury *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | on the princess | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on princess=Location |
| 7 | **soar** | past · progressive |  |  |  | princess's reach |  | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme out reach=Trajectory |
| 8 | **infuriate** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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