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title: They rushed upstairs again and returned with a pair of cocoa nuts li… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They rushed upstairs again and returned with a pair of cocoa nuts lined with leather, which she put on her feet. Who acts: slippers, leather. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 53

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They rushed upstairs again and returned with a pair of cocoa nuts lined with leather, which she put on her feet.

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**Who acts:** slippers, leather · **What happens:** rush, return, line, put · **To what, where:** cocoa nuts, feet

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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 (slippers, leather), 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:pg641:26:53
# text = They rushed upstairs again and returned with a pair of cocoa nuts lined with leather, which she put on her feet.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:outer	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | slippers *= slipper* |  |  |  | again | upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | slippers *= slipper* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a pair of cocoa nuts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **line** | participle |  | cocoa nuts *not said here* |  |  |  | with leather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leather=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | leather |  |  | Jem's feet |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination |

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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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