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title: Dip-into-everything, the second finger, dipped into sweet things as… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Dip-into-everything, the second finger, dipped into sweet things as well as sour things, pointed to the sun and the moon, and guided the pen when they wrote. Who acts: Fingers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 54

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Dip-into-everything, the second finger, dipped into sweet things as well as sour things, pointed to the sun and the moon, and guided the pen when they wrote.

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**Who acts:** Fingers · **What happens:** dip, point, guide, write · **To what, where:** sweet things, sour things, sun, pen

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fingers), 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:pg640:51:54
# text = Dip-into-everything, the second finger, dipped into sweet things as well as sour things, pointed to the sun and the moon, and guided the pen when they wrote.
1	Dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **dip** | participle |  |  |  | sweet things |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into thing=Location |
| 2 | **point** | participle |  | sour things *not said here* | the sun and the moon |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient |
| 3 | **guide** | past |  | the pen |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme |
| 4 | **write** | past | Fingers *= finger* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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