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title: But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she felt a great shove on her shoulders, and the wicked witch had pushed her into the deep water, exclaiming: Who acts: tender feet, Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree an
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 19

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But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she felt a great shove on her shoulders, and the wicked witch had pushed her into the deep water, exclaiming:

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**Who acts:** tender feet, Queen · **What happens:** have, touch, feel, push, exclaim · **To what, where:** cool ripples, great shove, shoulders, wicked witch, deep water

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tender feet, Queen), 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:pg640:29:19
# text = But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she felt a great shove on her shoulders, and the wicked witch had pushed her into the deep water, exclaiming:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ripples	ripple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shove	shove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Queen's tender feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | past | Queen's tender feet | the cool ripples |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ripple=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Queen | a great shove |  | Queen's shoulders |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shove=Theme on shoulder=Location |
| 4 | **push** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wicked witch |  | the deep water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination |
| 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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 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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