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title: As he was thus bending down into it the woman suddenly rose up and p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was thus bending down into it the woman suddenly rose up and pushed him in head first, saying that now he could take up his quarters there. Who acts: Prince, woman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 16

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As he was thus bending down into it the woman suddenly rose up and pushed him in head first, saying that now he could take up his quarters there.

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**Who acts:** Prince, woman · **What happens:** bend down, rise up, push, say, take up · **To what, where:** barrel, Prince, head, quarters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, woman), 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:pg640:42:16
# text = As he was thus bending down into it the woman suddenly rose up and pushed him in head first, saying that now he could take up his quarters there.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend down** | past · progressive | Prince |  |  | barrel |  | down, thus *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into it=Product |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | past | the woman *not said here* | Prince |  | head |  | first *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take up** | could | Prince | Prince's quarters |  | there | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=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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