--- title: She longed to get down and bathe her face in the clear pools, and pi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She longed to get down and bathe her face in the clear pools, and pick the brilliant flowers, but the horse said ‘No,’ and quickened his pace, neither turning to the right or the left. Who acts: remembrance, horse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, horse), 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:pg641:38:109 # text = She longed to get down and bathe her face in the clear pools, and pick the brilliant flowers, but the horse said ‘No,’ and quickened his pace, neither turning to the right or the left. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 quickened quicken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc:preconj _ _ 35 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **long** | past | remembrance | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **get down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | remembrance *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bathe** | infinitive | remembrance *not said here* | remembrance's face | | | | in the clear pools | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination in pool=Theme | | 4 | **pick** | infinitive | remembrance *not said here* | the brilliant flowers | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the horse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 6 | **quicken** | past | remembrance *not said here* | song's pace | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | | 7 | **turn** | gerund | remembrance *not said here* | | | the right or the left | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory | 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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/110/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)