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title: He stooped down and pulled out a large box, filled quite full with s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He stooped down and pulled out a large box, filled quite full with shining gold pieces. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 9

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He stooped down and pulled out a large box, filled quite full with shining gold pieces.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** stoop down, pull out, fill, shine · **To what, where:** large box, gold pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg641:18:9
# text = He stooped down and pulled out a large box, filled quite full with shining gold pieces.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop down** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull out** | participle | husband *not said here* | a large box |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | a large box *not said here* |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  | gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=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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