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title: And, better still, every movement of the girl, just growing out of c… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, better still, every movement of the girl, just growing out of childhood, was also reflected in the wonderful glass. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 21

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And, better still, every movement of the girl, just growing out of childhood, was also reflected in the wonderful glass.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** grow out, reflect, move · **To what, where:** childhood, movement, wonderful glass, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg640:11:21
# text = And, better still, every movement of the girl, just growing out of childhood, was also reflected in the wonderful glass.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | childhood |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location childhood=Theme |
| 2 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | every movement of the girl |  | the wonderful glass |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** |  |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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