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title: She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straig… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler’s stall. Who acts: Hannah. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, 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 2, sentence 64

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She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler’s stall.

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**Who acts:** Hannah · **What happens:** gather up, tell, follow, go · **To what, where:** baskets, Jem, Hannah, stall · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hannah), 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:pg641:27:64
# text = She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler’s stall.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather up** | past | Hannah | Hannah's baskets |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hannah *not said here* |  | Jem |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hannah *not said here* | Hannah |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | Hannah *not said here* |  |  | the cobbler's stall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stall=Initial\_Location |

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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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