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title: Being an experienced traveller, he drew from his pocket a little cup… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Being an experienced traveller, he drew from his pocket a little cup (without which no one should ever take a journey), and was just about to dip it in the water, when a lovely little green frog, much prettier than frogs generally are, jumped into the cup. Who acts: bird, one, lovely little green fr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 64

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Being an experienced traveller, he drew from his pocket a little cup (without which no one should ever take a journey), and was just about to dip it in the water, when a lovely little green frog, much prettier than frogs generally are, jumped into the cup.

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**Who acts:** bird, one, lovely little green frog · **What happens:** be, draw, take, jump · **To what, where:** experienced traveller, journey, water, cup

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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 (bird, one, lovely little green frog), 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:pg640:11:64
# text = Being an experienced traveller, he drew from his pocket a little cup (without which no one should ever take a journey), and was just about to dip it in the water, when a lovely little green frog, much prettier than frogs generally are, jumped into the cup.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	_
46	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
48	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
49	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | bird *not said here* | a experienced traveller |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | bird |  |  |  |  | from bird's pocket and a little cup | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pocket=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **take** | should | no one | a journey |  |  | ever | without a little cup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | bird *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | about, dip *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a lovely little green frog |  |  |  |  | than frogs; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | present | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **jump** | past | bird *not said here* |  |  | the cup |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cup=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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