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title: She took the little girl in her arms, and holding it up before the a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She took the little girl in her arms, and holding it up before the assembled company announced that henceforward it would be known by the name of Dotterine--a name which no one understood but the queen, who knew that the baby had come from the yolk of an egg. Who acts: queen, holding, name, one. A s
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 43

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She took the little girl in her arms, and holding it up before the assembled company announced that henceforward it would be known by the name of Dotterine--a name which no one understood but the queen, who knew that the baby had come from the yolk of an egg.

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**Who acts:** queen, holding, name, one, baby · **What happens:** take, hold up, assemble, announce, know, understand · **To what, where:** little girl, arms, veil, name, yolk, Dotterine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (queen, holding, name, one), 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:pg641:12:43
# text = She took the little girl in her arms, and holding it up before the assembled company announced that henceforward it would be known by the name of Dotterine--a name which no one understood but the queen, who knew that the baby had come from the yolk of an egg.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	ccomp	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	yolk	yolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | queen | the little girl |  | queen's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **hold up** | gerund |  | veil |  |  | before the assembled company |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | holding |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **know** | would · passive | the name of Dotterine but the queen | veil |  |  |  | henceforward *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **understand** | past | no one | a name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 7 | **know** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **come** | past · perfect | the baby |  |  | the yolk of a egg |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from yolk=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **name** |  |  | Dotterine |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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 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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