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title: Away floated the leaf down the stream, bearing Thumbelina far beyond… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Away floated the leaf down the stream, bearing Thumbelina far beyond the reach of the toad. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 105

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Away floated the leaf down the stream, bearing Thumbelina far beyond the reach of the toad.

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**What happens:** float, bear · **To what, where:** leaf, stream, Thumbelina

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:47:105
# text = Away floated the leaf down the stream, bearing Thumbelina far beyond the reach of the toad.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past |  | the leaf |  | the stream |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme down stream=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund |  | Thumbelina |  |  |  | beyond the reach of the toad | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=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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