--- title: So Kisika took the little box out of her pocket, with the piece of c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So Kisika took the little box out of her pocket, with the piece of cloth lying in it, and dipped the cloth in the water, and lo! they were standing close to a splendid house in the middle of the garden. Who acts: Kisika, piece, eyes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/) / 68 # The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 68 So Kisika took the little box out of her pocket, with the piece of cloth lying in it, and dipped the cloth in the water, and lo! they were standing close to a splendid house in the middle of the garden. **Who acts:** Kisika, piece, eyes · **What happens:** take, lie, dip, stand · **To what, where:** little box, pocket, song, cloth, water 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 (Kisika, piece, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:2:68 # text = So Kisika took the little box out of her pocket, with the piece of cloth lying in it, and dipped the cloth in the water, and lo! they were standing close to a splendid house in the middle of the garden. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Kisika Kisika PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 dipped dip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 lo lo INTJ UH _ 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 35 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Kisika | the little box | | Kisika's pocket | | with the piece of cloth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | the piece of cloth *not said here* | | | song | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | | 3 | **dip** | past | Kisika *not said here* | the cloth | | the water | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | eyes *= eye* | | | | | to a splendid house in the middle of the garden; close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/69/) - ↑ back to [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/)