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title: She put the linen into his hands, and he took it straight back to hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She put the linen into his hands, and he took it straight back to his mother, who was so pleased with it that she declared she had never seen linen so beautifully spun, and that it was far finer and whiter than the webs that the two elder brothers had brought home. Who acts: linen, youth, hand. A se
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 21

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She put the linen into his hands, and he took it straight back to his mother, who was so pleased with it that she declared she had never seen linen so beautifully spun, and that it was far finer and whiter than the webs that the two elder brothers had brought home.

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**Who acts:** linen, youth, hand · **What happens:** put, take, be, declare, not see, spin · **To what, where:** linen, hands, hand, two elder brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linen, youth, hand), 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:pg641:36:21
# text = She put the linen into his hands, and he took it straight back to his mother, who was so pleased with it that she declared she had never seen linen so beautifully spun, and that it was far finer and whiter than the webs that the two elder brothers had brought home.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
32	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
42	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	conj	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
51	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
55	home	home	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | linen | the linen |  | youth's hands |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent linen=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | past | youth | hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to youth's mother; with hand; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | linen |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | linen | linen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer linen=Stimulus |
| 6 | **spin** | participle | linen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | hand |  |  |  |  | than the webs; far, fine *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the two elder brothers |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=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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