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title: But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields. Who acts: little sister, twigs. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 56

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But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields.

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**Who acts:** little sister, twigs · **What happens:** tie, get past, run, come out · **To what, where:** twigs, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister, twigs), 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:pg640:39:56
# text = But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	past	past	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past | the little sister | the twigs |  |  |  | with a piece of ribbon; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent twig=Patient with piece=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **get past** | past | twigs *= twig* |  |  |  |  | past, safely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come out** | past | the little sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the open fields | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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