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title: So one morning Dotterine, who had had neither supper nor breakfast,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one morning Dotterine, who had had neither supper nor breakfast, and was feeling very hungry, let her wing fly away. Who acts: one morning, you. 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 87

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So one morning Dotterine, who had had neither supper nor breakfast, and was feeling very hungry, let her wing fly away.

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**Who acts:** one morning, you · **What happens:** have, feel, let · **To what, where:** supper, wing, Dotterine

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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 (one morning, you), 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:pg641:12:87
# text = So one morning Dotterine, who had had neither supper nor breakfast, and was feeling very hungry, let her wing fly away.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	fly	fly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | one morning | neither supper nor breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | past · progressive | one morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | wing | Dotterine |  | morning | away *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wing=Theme |

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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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