--- title: I struggled to get out, but only fell in further; so I ran to the ho… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I struggled to get out, but only fell in further; so I ran to the house, seized a spade, dug myself out, and took home the holy water. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/) / 56 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 56 I struggled to get out, but only fell in further; so I ran to the house, seized a spade, dug myself out, and took home the holy water. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** struggle, get out, fall, run, seize, dig out · **To what, where:** spade, myself, holy water This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:3:56 # text = I struggled to get out, but only fell in further; so I ran to the house, seized a spade, dug myself out, and took home the holy water. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 struggled struggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 further further ADV RB _ 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 spade spade NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **struggle** | past | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in further=Location | | 4 | **run** | past | I | | | | | to the house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | | 5 | **seize** | past | I *not said here* | a spade | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme | | 6 | **dig out** | past | I *not said here* | myself | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | | 7 | **take** | past | I *not said here* | the holy water | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/57/) - ↑ back to [The Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/)