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title: The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell. Who acts: leaf. 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 94

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The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell.

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**Who acts:** leaf · **What happens:** be, swim · **To what, where:** old toad, walnut shell

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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 (leaf), 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:pg640:47:94
# text = The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the leaf |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | past | the leaf *not said here* |  | the old toad | leaf's walnut shell |  | with Thumbelina | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to toad=Destination |

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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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