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title: Two drops of water were glistening on the cloak, and these the girl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two drops of water were glistening on the cloak, and these the girl shook on the ground. Who acts: Two drops, girl. 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 57

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Two drops of water were glistening on the cloak, and these the girl shook on the ground.

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**Who acts:** Two drops, girl · **What happens:** glisten, shake · **To what, where:** cloak, ground

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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 (Two drops, girl), 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:pg641:2:57
# text = Two drops of water were glistening on the cloak, and these the girl shook on the ground.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glisten** | past · progressive | Two drops of water |  |  | the cloak |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cloak=Location |
| 2 | **shake** | past | this girl |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

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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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