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title: She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind. Who acts: Dotterine. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 117

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She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind.

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**Who acts:** Dotterine · **What happens:** go, stand, step, drive away · **To what, where:** fine carriage, front

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine), 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:pg641:12:117
# text = She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Dotterine |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Dotterine *not said here* | a fine carriage |  | front of the door |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme in front=Destination |
| 3 | **step** | past | Dotterine |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into which=Destination |
| 4 | **drive away** | past · passive | Dotterine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the wind; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» |

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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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