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title: The woman came up to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman came up to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed it to her breast; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by the same way as she had come, and the floor closed over her again. Who acts: woman, floor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 45

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The woman came up to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed it to her breast; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by the same way as she had come, and the floor closed over her again.

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**Who acts:** woman, floor · **What happens:** come up, take, press, give back, return, come · **To what, where:** nurse, child

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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: who acts (woman, floor), 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:pg640:47:45
# text = The woman came up to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed it to her breast; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by the same way as she had come, and the floor closed over her again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
45	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come up** | past | the woman |  |  | the nurse |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nurse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | the woman *not said here* | the child |  |  |  | from woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **press** | past |  | child |  |  |  | to woman's breast | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **give back** | past | woman | child | the nurse |  | then |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to nurse=Recipient |
| 5 | **return** | participle | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the same way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **close** | participle | the floor |  |  |  | again | over woman | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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