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title: Elsa stooped and kissed her hand, then, kneeling down, buried her fa… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Elsa stooped and kissed her hand, then, kneeling down, buried her face in the woman’s lap, and sobbed out: 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 40

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Elsa stooped and kissed her hand, then, kneeling down, buried her face in the woman’s lap, and sobbed out:

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**Who acts:** Elsa · **What happens:** stoop, kiss, kneel down, bury, sob out · **To what, where:** hand, face, lap

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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:pg641:2:40
# text = Elsa stooped and kissed her hand, then, kneeling down, buried her face in the woman’s lap, and sobbed out:
1	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | Elsa |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Elsa *not said here* | Elsa's hand |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **kneel down** | gerund | Elsa *not said here* |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bury** | past | Elsa *not said here* | Elsa's face |  | the woman's lap |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in lap=Destination |
| 5 | **sob out** | participle | Elsa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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