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title: ‘The ball is moving in my hand,’ and looking round she beheld a clou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The ball is moving in my hand,’ and looking round she beheld a cloud flying towards them, large and blacker than the first, and striped with red. Who acts: ball, edge, cloud. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 21

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‘The ball is moving in my hand,’ and looking round she beheld a cloud flying towards them, large and blacker than the first, and striped with red.

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**Who acts:** ball, edge, cloud · **What happens:** move, look round, behold, fly, stripe · **To what, where:** hand, cloud

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, edge, cloud), 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:pg641:11:21
# text = ‘The ball is moving in my hand,’ and looking round she beheld a cloud flying towards them, large and blacker than the first, and striped with red.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	blacker	black	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · progressive | the ball |  |  | my hand |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look round** | gerund | the ball *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **behold** | past | edge | a cloud |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | a cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards shapes *= shape* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
| 5 | **stripe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with red | tree rules |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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