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title: He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite st… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards. Who acts: house, limbs. 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 99

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He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards.

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**Who acts:** house, limbs · **What happens:** jump up, prepare, go, seem, not move, laugh · **To what, where:** head, own stupidity, nose, wall

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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 (house, limbs), 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:pg641:26:99
# text = He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	cop	_	_
43	still	still	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
49	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	xcomp	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	against	against	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | house |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | house's limbs |  |  |  | still | stiff *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **move** | could | house | house's head |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | house |  |  | house's own stupidity |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | drowsy *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **keep** | past | house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **knock** | gerund | house *not said here* | house's nose |  | the wall or cupboards |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against wall=Destination |
| 10 | **sleep** |  | house |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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