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title: But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so firmly into the glass that he was quite safe not to fall. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 40

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But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so firmly into the glass that he was quite safe not to fall.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** sleep, stick, be, not fall · **To what, where:** sharp claws, glass

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (boy), 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:pg640:22:40
# text = But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so firmly into the glass that he was quite safe not to fall.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stick** | past · perfect | boy | boy's sharp claws |  | the glass |  | firmly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent claw=Theme into glass=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **fall** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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