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title: And lifting the remaining leaves up, he laid them on the dish and br… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And lifting the remaining leaves up, he laid them on the dish and brought them to the maiden. Who acts: lifting, Hunter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 94

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And lifting the remaining leaves up, he laid them on the dish and brought them to the maiden.

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**Who acts:** lifting, Hunter · **What happens:** lift, leave up, lay, bring · **To what, where:** remaining, ground, dish, maiden

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lifting, Hunter), 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:pg640:10:94
# text = And lifting the remaining leaves up, he laid them on the dish and brought them to the maiden.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	remaining	remaining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund |  | the remaining |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remaining=Theme |
| 2 | **leave up** | present | lifting |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Hunter | ground |  | the dish |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on dish=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Hunter *not said here* | ground |  | the maiden |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to maiden=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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