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title: Just below his window was a shoemaker’s apprentice, with leather apr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just below his window was a shoemaker’s apprentice, with leather apron and shoes; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall, just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating. Who acts: window, soldier, one. A sentence of «The Yellow 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 127

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Just below his window was a shoemaker’s apprentice, with leather apron and shoes; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall, just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating.

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**Who acts:** window, soldier, one · **What happens:** be, skip, fly off, fall, sit, peep · **To what, where:** apprentice, wall

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, soldier, one), 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:pg640:46:127
# text = Just below his window was a shoemaker’s apprentice, with leather apron and shoes; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall, just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	below	below	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	appos	_	_
20	along	along	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
42	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	advcl	_	_
43	through	through	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | past | soldier's window | a shoemaker's apprentice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **skip** | past · progressive | soldier |  |  |  |  | along, merrily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly off** | past | one of soldier's shoes |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | one of soldier's shoes *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wall=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **peep** | gerund | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the iron grating | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through grating=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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