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title: Suddenly the remembrance flashed across her of the wolf whom she had… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the remembrance flashed across her of the wolf whom she had put to flight, and waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow. Who acts: remembrance, wolf. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 106

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Suddenly the remembrance flashed across her of the wolf whom she had put to flight, and waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, wolf · **What happens:** flash, put, wave, rush, have, spring · **To what, where:** wolf, sword, one side, blow

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (remembrance, wolf), 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:pg641:38:106
# text = Suddenly the remembrance flashed across her of the wolf whom she had put to flight, and waving her sword, she rushed so violently on the lion that he had barely time to spring on one side, so as to avoid the blow.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past | the remembrance |  |  |  |  | across breath; of the wolf; suddenly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wolf |  |  |  | to flight | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund | remembrance *not said here* | breath's sword |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 4 | **rush** | past | remembrance |  |  |  |  | on the lion; violently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lion=Trajectory |
| 5 | **have** | past | wolf |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spring** | to-infinitive | wolf *not said here* |  |  | one side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 7 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | the remembrance *not said here* | the blow |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent blow=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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