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title: Delighted at having secured his prize, the turtle hastened back to t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Delighted at having secured his prize, the turtle hastened back to the shore and plunged quickly into the water. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 19

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Delighted at having secured his prize, the turtle hastened back to the shore and plunged quickly into the water.

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**What happens:** secure, hasten back, plunge · **To what, where:** prize, turtle, shore, water

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:32:19
# text = Delighted at having secured his prize, the turtle hastened back to the shore and plunged quickly into the water.
1	Delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **secure** | gerund · perfect |  | turtle's prize |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prize=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten back** | participle |  | the turtle *not said here* |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 3 | **plunge** | past |  |  |  | the water |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=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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