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title: She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her. Who acts: Jem. 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 55

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She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her.

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**Who acts:** Jem · **What happens:** throw away, walk, draw · **To what, where:** stick, glass floor, little Jem

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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 (Jem), 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:pg641:26:55
# text = She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	briskly	briskly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw away** | past | Jem | Jem's stick |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Jem *not said here* |  |  | the glass floor |  | briskly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | Jem *not said here* | little Jem |  |  | after Jem |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jem=Theme |

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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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