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title: As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up on… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff.’ Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 34

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As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff.’

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** speak, shuffle, take up, squeeze, throw back, mutter · **To what, where:** hamper, one, cabbages, Bad stuff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg641:26:34
# text = As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff.’
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hamper	hamper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	advcl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shuffle** | past | woman |  |  | the hamper of cabbages |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hamper=Destination |
| 3 | **take up** | past | woman *not said here* | one |  |  | after another |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **squeeze** | past | woman *not said here* | cabbages *= cabbage* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **throw back** | past | woman *not said here* | cabbages *= cabbage* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | woman *not said here* | Bad stuff |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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