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title: When Elsa recovered her senses, she found herself lying under a bush… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Elsa recovered her senses, she found herself lying under a bush in her own proper form. Who acts: Elsa. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 176

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When Elsa recovered her senses, she found herself lying under a bush in her own proper form.

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**Who acts:** Elsa · **What happens:** recover, find, lie, form · **To what, where:** senses, Elsa, bush

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa), 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:pg641:2:176
# text = When Elsa recovered her senses, she found herself lying under a bush in her own proper form.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past | Elsa | Elsa's senses |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Elsa | Elsa |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | Elsa *not said here* |  |  | a bush |  | in Elsa's own proper form | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location |
| 4 | **form** |  | Elsa |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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